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First opened Friday, April 8, 2016

建設

けんせつ

  • 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).

construction, foundation

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

Taken apart

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Written with 建設

In a sentence

  • 新(あたら)しい橋(はし)の建設(けんせつ)が進行(しんこう)中(ちゅう)だ。

    The new bridge is in process of construction.

    Tatoeba #145431, translation #269132

  • 橋(はし)の建設(けんせつ)の入札(にゅうさつ)が募(つの)られた。

    Bids were solicited for the building of the bridge.

    Tatoeba #180131, translation #18991

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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 opened on April 8

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