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First opened Saturday, October 15, 2016

意地

いじ

  • tail-high (odaka): 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).

disposition, spirit, obstinacy, appetite

JLPT N3Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 意地

In a sentence

  • 彼(かれ)の兄(あに)は私(わたし)に意地(いじ)が悪(わる)かった。

    His brother was nasty to me.

    Tatoeba #117741, translation #285923

  • みかけはそうではないのに本当(ほんとう)は意地(いじ)が悪(わる)い。

    He doesn't look that way, but he's really a nasty piece of work.

    Tatoeba #74706, translation #329013

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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 いじ

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.

  • 意地This word

    disposition, spirit, obstinacy, appetite

    いじ↓ tail-high (odaka)

  • 維持

    maintenance, preservation

    い↓じ head-high (atamadaka)

Also opened on October 15

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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