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First opened Friday, January 1, 2016

機関

きかん

  • head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
  • 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).

engine; institution, organization

JLPT N3Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

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 機関

In a sentence

  • 調査(ちょうさ)機関(きかん)がその効果(こうか)を調(しら)べた。

    A research organization investigated the effect.

    Tatoeba #126024, translation #277968

  • 国会(こっかい)は日本(にっぽん)の主要(しゅよう)統治(とうち)機関(きかん)である。

    The Diet is the chief organ of government in Japan.

    Tatoeba #173076, translation #241396

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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.

Also read きかん

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.

  • 機関This word

    engine; institution, organization

    き↓かん head-high (atamadaka); きか↓ん middle-high (nakadaka)

  • 期間

    period, term

    きか↓ん middle-high (nakadaka); き↓かん head-high (atamadaka)

  • 器官

    organ (of body, instrument)

    き↓かん head-high (atamadaka); きか↓ん middle-high (nakadaka)

  • 季刊

    quarterly (e.g., magazine)

    きかん flat (heiban)

Also opened on January 1

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

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