First opened Friday, March 20, 2015
食卓
しょくたく
- 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).
dining table
Taken apart
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In a sentence
母は食卓の準備をした。
Mother set the table for dinner.
食卓から皿を片付けた。
I cleared the table of the dishes.
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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.