First opened Tuesday, December 27, 2011
ユニーク
ユニーク
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
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).
unique
ユニーク is from English unique.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼のユニークな建築スタイルの誕生についての歴史的研究である。
This is a historical examination of the birth of his unique architectural style.
会社にパンタロンとアロハシャツを着てくる彼は、かなりユニークな存在だ。
He's a pretty unique guy, wearing bell bottoms and Hawaiian shirts to the office.
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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 English unique.”
Source: Wiktionary: ユニーク (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
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.