Meanings
Verb (5-dan, む, transitive)
1. to step on; to tread on; to trample on
2. to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to visit
3. to experience; to undergo
4. to follow (rules, principles, etc.); to go through (e.g. formalities); to complete
5. to estimate; to guess; to judge; to value; to appraise
6. to rhyme
7. to succeed to (e.g. the throne)
Kanji used
to step on
Pitch accent
Top 1800
Used in vocabulary (24 in total)
to dance; to perform dance steps
to stumble a step or two forward (when trying to stop); to pass one's destination and stumble a step or two forward; to totter
to stamp one's feet (in frustration, impatience, etc.)
Examples (11 in total)
Don't step in the flower bed.
Someone stepped on my foot.
Don't step on the broken glass.
He pressed the brake pedal.
I stepped on something weird.
Someone stepped on my foot on the train.
The boy stepped on my foot on purpose.
She apologized to me for stepping on my foot.
The man did not so much as apologize for stepping on my foot.
Her first appearance on the stage was in 1969.
The child is crying and stamping his feet.