労しい

Japanese

Kanji in this term
いたわ
Grade: 4
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
勞しい (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Cognate with (いたわ) (itawaru).

Pronunciation

Adjective

(いたわ)しい (itawashii) いたはしい (itafasī)? -i (adverbial (いたわ)しく (itawashiku))

  1. pitiful

Inflection

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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