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あむ
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, む, transitive)
1. to knit; to plait; to braid
I've gotten quite good at knitting.
2. to compile (anthology, dictionary, etc.); to edit
He collected Japanese folk tales and compiled them into a single volume.
Alt. forms
あむ
57%
編あむ
42%
Pitch accent
あ
む
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Conjugations...Used in: 1439
Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
The Great Passage (2011 novel by Shion Miura, 2013 movie, 2016 animated TV series)
to compile a book
to do something foolhardy; (lit.) to braid a tiger's whiskers
Examples (13 in total)
I've gotten quite good at knitting.
Have you finished knitting that sweater?
She is knitting a sweater.
She is knitting a sweater for her boyfriend.
By the way, what were you knitting until just now?
Mary is knitting a scarf for Tom.
This collection of poems was compiled after his death.
He collected Japanese folk tales and compiled them into a single volume.
This dictionary took thirty years to compile.
She learned the craft of basket weaving from her grandmother.
One of them is that I was taught how to braid hair.
That's long hair that has been braided and rolled up into a bun.
A fence of roughly woven old bamboo ran all the way around the garden.