First opened Tuesday, June 9, 2015
合図
あいず
- 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).
sign, signal
Taken apart
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In a sentence
合図の笛がなった。
The whistle blew.
いつでも合図して。
Say the word any time.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 混種語 Hybrid
- Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.