拝む

おがむ · ogamu · JLPT N2 · verb-godan

to worship

🙏 ogamu sounds like Oh, God, um... the start of a hesitant prayer

The kanji 拝 has the hand radical 扌 on its left, because worship in Japan is done with the hands pressed together. You hear the word at shrines, and the humble prefix 拝見 (haiken, to humbly see) uses the same character.

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