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First opened Saturday, April 4, 2015

人工

じんこう

  • 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).

artificial, man made, human work,

JLPT N3Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 人工

In a sentence

  • この庭(にわ)の美(うつく)しさは自然(しぜん)より人工(じんこう)のおかげだ。

    This beautiful garden owes more to art than to nature.

    Tatoeba #220458, translation #57781

  • 人工(じんこう)干潟(ひがた)を造成(ぞうせい)する試(こころ)みが全国(ぜんこく)的(てき)に展開(てんかい)されている。

    Artificial tidelands are being developed on a country-wide basis.

    Tatoeba #75977, translation #327741

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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.

Related in the dictionary

The words JMdict points to from this word's sense. A word that has opened links to its day; the others are named as JMdict writes them.

Opposite
  • 天然てんねんnature, spontaneity

Also read じんこう

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • 人工This word

    artificial, man made, human work,

    じんこう flat (heiban)

  • 人口

    population

    じんこう flat (heiban)

Also opened on April 4

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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