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First opened Thursday, November 3, 2016

慣行

かんこう

  • 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).

customary practice, habit, traditional event

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 慣行

In a sentence

  • その慣行(かんこう)は廃止(はいし)すべきだ。

    The practice should be done away with.

    Tatoeba #211596, translation #48873

  • 経営(けいえい)慣行(かんこう)の信頼(しんらい)が株価(かぶか)暴落(ぼうらく)によって損(そこ)なわれてしまいました。

    Confidence in management practices was undermined by the crash.

    Tatoeba #176503, translation #237961

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What Wiktionary says

We don't have the data for this section. The pinned Wiktionary dump has no Etymology section for this reading, so nothing is said about where the word comes from.

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 かんこう

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.

  • 慣行This word

    customary practice, habit, traditional event

    かんこう flat (heiban)

  • 観光

    sightseeing

    かんこう flat (heiban)

  • 刊行

    publication, issue

    かんこう flat (heiban)

Also opened on November 3

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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