怪

音読おんよみ: カイ

訓読くんよみ: あやしい・あやしむ

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部首ぶしゅ: りっしんべん(忄)

Meaning

Mysterious / Suspicious / Strange

  • Basic forms
  • 怪しむ — suspect; doubt / base form
  • 怪しみます — suspects; doubts / masu form
  • 怪しんだ — suspected; doubted / ta form
  • 怪しんで — suspecting … / te form
  • 怪しまない — do not suspect / negative
  • 怪しめば — if (one) suspects / conditional
  • Common expressions
  • 行動を怪しむ — suspect someone’s actions
  • 態度を怪しむ — doubt someone’s attitude
  • More
  • 怪しんでいる — is suspecting / state
  • 怪しまれる — be suspected
  • 怪しまれないように — so as not to be suspected

怪しむ(あやしむ) is a godan transitive verb. It means to suspect or doubt something because it seems strange or unnatural, and is commonly used when judging people’s behavior or situations.

  • あやしい — suspicious; mysterious
  • あやしむ — to doubt; to find strange
  • 妖怪ようかい — ghost; monster; spirit
  • 怪談かいだん — ghost story
  • 怪我けが — injury; wound

The heart radical hints at emotion — feelings of wonder or unease. shows what happens when the heart senses something odd or supernatural.

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