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芸術
げいじゅつ
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
(fine) art, the arts
Geijutsu is from Literary Chinese 藝術, collectively the 六藝 (Liùyì, “Six Arts”) and 術數 (shùshù, “numerology”).
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In a sentence
芸術のための芸術。
Art for art's sake.
当時、芸術は全盛でした。
Art was then at its best.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From Literary Chinese 藝術, collectively the 六藝 (Liùyì, “Six Arts”) and 術數 (shùshù, “numerology”)”
Source: Wiktionary: 芸術 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.