First opened Tuesday, March 6, 2012
観点
かんてん
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
- 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).
point of view
Kanten is 観 (kan, “to view”) plus 点 (ten, “point”).
Taken apart
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In a sentence
母は何でもお金の観点から考える。
My mother thinks of everything in terms of money.
法律の観点からすると、彼は自由だ。
From the standpoint of the law, he is free.
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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 観 (kan, “to view”) + 点 (ten, “point”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 観点 (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.