First opened Thursday, July 31, 2014
大体
だいたい
The two sources behind the pitch accent disagree about this word, so an accent is shown only where they give the same one.
- Kanjium: falls after mora 3 (middle-high (nakadaka))
- UniDic: flat (heiban)
approximately; in most cases; in general; to begin with (same as もともと)
JLPT N4Commonadverb (fukushi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese
Taken apart
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In a sentence
大体正しい。
That's mostly right.
だいたい６時です。
It's almost six o'clock.
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What Wiktionary says
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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.