First opened Saturday, October 31, 2015
隠す
かくす
- 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).
to hide, to conceal
Taken apart
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Written with 隠
In a sentence
頭隠して尻隠さず。
Protect yourself at all points.
雲が太陽を隠した。
The clouds hid the sun.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.