First opened Saturday, August 8, 2015

従姉妹

いとこ

middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2

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).

cousin (female)

JLPT N3Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)Ateji

Taken apart

We don't have the data for this section. Wiktionary has no Etymology section for this reading, and a split made without one would be a guess.

Written with 従姉妹

In a sentence

あのいとこは見(み)かけは似(に)ているが性格(せいかく)はまるで違(ちが)う。
The cousins are similar in appearance but widely different in character.
Tatoeba #231368, translation #68735

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What Wiktionary says

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What the labels mean

Ateji: Kanji chosen for their sound or sense after the word existed.

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.

See also: 従兄弟いとこcousin (male)

Also read いとこ

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.

従姉妹This word
cousin (female)
いと↓こ middle-high (nakadaka)
従兄弟
cousin (male)
いと↓こ middle-high (nakadaka)

Also opened on August 8

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