First opened Tuesday, May 26, 2015

生長

せいちょう

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).

growth

JLPT N3Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suruintransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 生長

In a sentence

植物(しょくぶつ)の生長(せいちょう)と生産(せいさん)性(せい)は、気温(きおん)と湿度(しつど)が作(つく)り出(だ)す入(い)り組(く)んだ関係(かんけい)に敏感(びんかん)に反応(はんのう)する。
Plant growth and productivity react sharply to a complex combination of temperature and moisture.
Tatoeba #145993, translation #268569

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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.

生長

Taken apart

In a sentence

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What the labels mean

Also read せいちょう

Also opened on May 26