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First opened Monday, February 21, 2011

結構

けっこう

  • middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3

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).

splendid; enough, tolerably

JLPT N5Commonadjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)漢語 · Sino-JapaneseCompoundRendakuBorrowing

Kekkō is from Middle Chinese 結構, appearing in the diary of Fujiwara no Sanesuke in 1031.

Taken apart

  1. 結

    けっ (from けつ)

    tie

  2. 構

    こう

    posture

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Wiktionary's text doesn't split this word, so each part is one of its kanji (with the okurigana written after it), with the reading and the dictionary meaning KANJIDIC2 gives that character — a word doesn't always use every sense of its kanji.

Written with 結構

In a sentence

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What Wiktionary says

Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.

  • “Ultimately from Middle Chinese 結構 (MC ket kuwH). Appears in the 小右記 (Shōyūki, Ouki) of 1031, the diary of Fujiwara no Sanesuke.”

Source: Wiktionary: 結構 (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.
Rendaku
The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).
Borrowing
Taken over from another language.

Also read けっこう

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • 結構This word

    splendid; enough, tolerably

    けっこ↓う middle-high (nakadaka)

  • 決行

    doing (with resolve), carrying out (e.g., a plan)

    けっこう flat (heiban)

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Also opened on February 21

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