昔 (むかし) — old times, past

昔むかし old times

Frequency #429 Frequency rank among common Japanese words. Lower number = more common. Grade 3 1 character no-adjective adverb noun

mukashi

むかし

Pitch高低アクセント — Tokyo-dialect pitch accent. The number is the drop position: 0 = heiban (no drop), 1 = atamadaka (drops after 1st mora), N = drops after Nth mora. The line above each mora marks high pitch; below, low. むかし[0] heiban 平板

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Meanings

old times
past

Explained in simple Japanese

今(いま)よりずっと前(まえ)のとき。

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Usage examples

昔むかしの日本にほんが、ある日ひ突然とつぜん、今いまの日本にほんになったのでしょうか。

Mukashi no nihon ga, aru hi totsuzen, ima no nihon ni natta no deshou ka.

Did the Japan of the past suddenly become today's Japan one day?

明治維新 — 日本が大きく変わった時 · MojiMori（AIオリジナル） · 第1章　黒船が来る前と、来た後

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Adjective forms

Non-past covers present and future. Expand a form to see its plain, polite, affirmative and negative versions, where available. Some forms have multiple variants.

Conjugations are not yet available for this adjective class.

Kanji UsedColors show the reading used in this word: blue = on’yomi (Chinese-derived), green = kun’yomi (native Japanese), purple = nanori (name readings), amber = jukujikun (whole-word readings). Uncolored tiles have no identified reading type.

むかし昔 once upon a time

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Words with 昔 (3)

昔(むかし)ながら mukashinagara traditional 昔(むかし)話(ばなし) mukashibanashi folklore 昔(むかし)のまま mukashinomama the way it was

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Meanings

Explained in simple Japanese

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Adjective forms

Kanji UsedColors show the reading used in this word: blue = on’yomi (Chinese-derived), green = kun’yomi (native Japanese), purple = nanori (name readings), amber = jukujikun (whole-word readings). Uncolored tiles have no identified reading type.

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