わだかまる

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of わだかまる – see the following entry.

【蟠る】 [verb] (of dissatisfaction, unhappiness, etc.) to linger; to lurk [verb] to coil; to curl into a ring shape [verb] to embezzle; to illegitimately acquire and make one's own

(This term, わだかまる (wadakamaru), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)