First opened Sunday, December 7, 2014

四角

しかく

tail-high (odaka): 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).

square

JLPT N3Commonadjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'noun (common) (futsuumeishi)geometry漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 四角

In a sentence

箱(はこ)の形(かたち)は普通(ふつう)四(し)角(かく)です。
The shape of a box is usually square.
Tatoeba #121370, translation #282635
例(たと)えば、『ねえ、ちょうど今(いま)青(あお)い四角(しかく)の紙(かみ)を見(み)たよ。』のようにだ。
Like, 'Hey, I just saw a blue paper square!'
Tatoeba #77715, translation #326003

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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.

四角

Taken apart

In a sentence

What Wiktionary says

What the labels mean

Also read しかく

Also opened on December 7