First opened Sunday, November 20, 2016
契機
けいき
- 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).
opportunity, chance
Taken apart
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In a sentence
退職を契機に茶道を始めた。
I took the opportunity of retirement to begin studying the tea ceremony.
株価上昇を契機に新工場建設の話が持ち上がった。
They took advantage of the stock price increase to raise the idea of building a new factory.
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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.