Lexical entry
ペイフォワード
peifowaado
Responding to a kindness by helping a third party.
Actions & EventsPure GairaigoWasei-EigoSemantic ShiftSource: English
Meaning
The practice of responding to a person's kindness by being kind to someone else instead of returning the favor to the original person.
- altruistic chain of kindness
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Evidence and Provenance
- Data source
- JMdict_english
- Revision
- JMdict.2026-04-17
- Review flags
- possible-wasei
- Active language
- English