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First opened Saturday, December 3, 2016

語句

ごく

  • 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).

words, phrases

JLPT N3Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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In a sentence

  • その作家(さっか)の文体(ぶんたい)は挿入(そうにゅう)語句(ごく)が多(おお)い。

    The writer has a parenthetic style.

    Tatoeba #210522, translation #47790

  • 法律(ほうりつ)文書(ぶんしょ)では難(むずか)しい言葉(ことば)や語句(ごく)がよく使用(しよう)される。

    In legal documents, difficult words and phrases are often used.

    Tatoeba #82650, translation #321066

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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 ごく

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.

  • 語句This word

    words, phrases

    ご↓く head-high (atamadaka)

  • 極

    quite, very

    ご↓く head-high (atamadaka)

Also opened on December 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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