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埋め合わせ (うめあわせ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Freq. Frequency Top 50,000 Conjugation Meanings 1
noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb
compensation ; making up for
Used for compensating for a loss, mistake, or shortcoming, often with a sense of balancing things out. Can be used as a noun or with する to mean 'to compensate'.
埋う
め
合あ
わせ
を
しよう
と
必ひっ
死し
だ
。
He is desperate to compensate for his mistake.
Written forms 埋う め 合あ わせ Usage 100%
Standard kanji spelling; the most common written form.
埋う め 合あわ せ
Variant with せ instead of わせ; less common but still seen.
Kanji 埋 bury, be filled up, embedded Similar words 補ほ 償しょう 補償 is more formal and often used for legal or financial compensation, while 埋め合わせ is more casual and implies making up for a personal shortfall or inconvenience.
償つぐな い 償い carries a stronger sense of atonement or reparation for a wrongdoing, whereas 埋め合わせ is about balancing a deficit or inconvenience.
Etymology Compound of 埋め (ume, stem of 埋める 'to bury, fill up') + 合わせ (awase, stem of 合わせる 'to match, combine'), literally 'filling up and matching', giving the sense of making up for a lack.
