- jiamari hypermeter, excess syllables in haiku, waka, etc.
Used in discussions of Japanese poetry, especially haiku and tanka, when a line has more than the standard syllable count.
この俳句は字余りだ。
Kono haiku wa jiamari da.
This haiku has too many syllables.
字余りを気にしないで自由に詠もう。
Jiamari o ki ni shinaide jiyu ni yomou.
Let's compose freely without worrying about extra syllables.
⚖️ Commonly confused with '字足らず' (jitarazu), which means having too few syllables.
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