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First opened Friday, February 10, 2017

唯

ただ

  • 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).

mere, sole, plain

JLPT N3Commonnouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'noun (common) (futsuumeishi)和語 · Native Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 唯

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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.

Also read ただ

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.

  • 唯This word

    mere, sole, plain

    た↓だ head-high (atamadaka)

  • ただ

    free of charge; just (~); only (~)

    No pitch accent shown

  • 只

    free of charge, mere, only

    た↓だ head-high (atamadaka)

Also opened on February 10

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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