First opened Saturday, September 3, 2011
比率
ひりつ
- 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).
ratio, proportion, percentage
Hiritsu is 比 (hi, “ratio”) plus 率 (ritsu, “rate”).
Taken apart
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In a sentence
親に対する子どもの比率が大きくなればなるほど子どもを育てるのは難しくなる。
The higher the ratio of children to parents, the harder it is to bring up the children.
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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.
- “From 比(ひ) (hi, “ratio”) + 率(りつ) (ritsu, “rate”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 比率 (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.