Kanji Details:
- 弥
- Frequency:1687
- Kun: いや, や, あまねし, いよいよ, とおい, ひさし, ひさ.しい, わた.る
- On: ミ, ビ
- Meaning: all the more, increasingly
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Examples:
Word Reading Meaning 弥生 やよい, いやおい third month of the lunar calendar; thick growth (of grass, etc.) 阿弥陀 あみだ Amitabha 弥勒 みろく Maitreya (a bodhisattva) 元の木阿弥 もとのもくあみ ending up right back where one started 南無阿弥陀仏 なむあみだぶつ I sincerely believe in Amitabha, Lord have mercy on me 弥次 やじ hooting, jeering, heckling 弥次る やじる to jeer (at), to hoot, to boo, to catcall, to heckle 弥久 びきゅう extending over a long time 弥生時代 やよいじだい Yayoi period (c. 300 BCE-300 CE) 弥縫 びほう patching up