First opened Wednesday, April 15, 2015
進歩
しんぽ
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
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).
improvement, progress, development
Taken apart
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In a sentence
科学は著しく進歩した。
Science has made remarkable progress.
文明の進歩がとても速い。
The progress of civilization is very rapid.
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What Wiktionary says
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