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Word of the Day

幸(しあわ)せ

N3Common

Rank #444

Found in 1,558 VNs · 10,956 total media

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Meanings

nadj-na

happiness
good fortune
luck
blessing

Pitch accent

Forms

幸せ

91.6%

倖せ

<0.1%

仕合わせ

<0.1%

仕合せ

<0.1%

しあわせ

8.0%

しやわせ

<0.1%

Example Sentences

from Jiten

そもそもそんな誰も幸せにならない最後は迎えたくない。

Source: Omoide Kakaete Ai ni Koi!!

あぁでもいつまでも、こんな幸せな日が続くといいなぁこんな気持ちの良い日を、これからもみんなと一緒に…。

Source: Arcana Famiglia

「わたしも少しでいい、ほんの少しでいいから幸せになれるかしら？」

Source: Mime

Sentences with Translation

from Tatoeba

お幸せに！

I hope you'll be happy forever.

幸せだった？

Were you happy?

幸せです。

I am happy.

Kanji

幸

blessing, fortune, happiness

Heisig: happiness

N2Grade 38 strokes#321 freq

On'yomi

コウ

Kun'yomi

さいわ.い、さち、しあわ.せ

Common Compounds

好運(こううん)good luck, fortune

倖せ(しあわせ)happiness, good fortune, luck

幸福

Conjugations

na-adjective

Dictionary幸せ

Plain present

Polite幸せです

Polite present

Negative幸せじゃない

Plain negative

Past幸せだった

Plain past

Te-form幸せで

Connective

Adverb幸せに

Adverbial form

Conditional幸せなら(ば)

Related VNDB Tags

Tags common across the top 50 VNs where this word appears most

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Word data and example sentences provided by Jiten.

Kanji details and compound words from KanjiAPI. Visual novel data from VNDB.

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