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First opened Saturday, June 11, 2016

昨

さく

Pitch accent: We don't have the data for this section. No accent list gives this spelling and reading, or the two we check against disagree.

last (year), yesterday

JLPT N3prefix漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 昨

In a sentence

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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 さく

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.

  • 昨This word

    last (year), yesterday

    No pitch accent shown

  • 柵

    fence, paling

    さく↓ tail-high (odaka)

  • 策

    plan, policy

    さく↓ tail-high (odaka); さ↓く head-high (atamadaka)

  • 咲く

    to bloom

    さく flat (heiban)

  • 作

    a work, a harvest

    さ↓く head-high (atamadaka); さく↓ tail-high (odaka); さく flat (heiban)

  • 裂く

    to tear, to split

    さ↓く head-high (atamadaka)

Also opened on June 11

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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