First opened Saturday, June 18, 2016

射す

さす

head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1

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 shine, to strike

JLPT N3CommonGodan verb with 'su' endingintransitive verb和語 · Native Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 射

In a sentence

雲間(くもま)が開(あ)け光(ひかり)が射(さ)した。
The clouds opened and the sun shone through.
Tatoeba #189358, translation #26506
木(き)が多(おお)すぎると家(いえ)に光(ひかり)が射(さ)さない。
Too many trees deprive a house of light.
Tatoeba #80144, translation #323573

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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.

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: 差すさすto raise (stretch out) hands, to raise (e.g., umbrella)

Also read さす

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.

射すThis word
to shine, to strike
さ↓す head-high (atamadaka)
挿す
to insert, to put in, to graft
さ↓す head-high (atamadaka)
指す
to point,
さ↓す head-high (atamadaka)
刺す
to sting, to bite (e.g., bug), to prick, to stab
さ↓す head-high (atamadaka)
差す
to raise (stretch out) hands, to raise (e.g., umbrella)
さ↓す head-high (atamadaka)
注す
to pour (drink), to serve (drinks)
さ↓す head-high (atamadaka)

Also opened on June 18

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