First opened Tuesday, October 14, 2014
失敗
しっぱい
- 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).
failure, mistake
Taken apart
We don't have the data for this section. Wiktionary has no Etymology section for this reading, and a split made without one would be a guess.
In a sentence
失敗したなあ。
I shouldn't have done it.
事業に失敗した。
He failed in business.
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What Wiktionary says
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