First opened Wednesday, February 25, 2015
瞬間
しゅんかん
- 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).
moment, second
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼は勝利の瞬間を待ちわびた。
He burned for his moment of triumph.
見た瞬間、彼女だとわかった。
I recognized her the moment I saw her.
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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.