WaniKani / Vocabulary / 寛ぐ

Primary

To Relax

Alternative

To Feel At Home

Word Type

godan verb

Explanation

This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means tolerance, so the verb version is what happens when you're a really tolerant person. You're able to relax and to feel at home because nothing really gets to you.

Reading

くつろぐ

Kyoko

(Tokyo accent, female)
Kenichi

(Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you:

You want to relax so you go down to old coots road (くつろ). It's a road with a bunch of old coots who don't bother nobody. They just kinda sit around and complain. That's where you like to relax. Something about being surrounded by a bunch of old coots on old coots road makes you feel at home.