First opened Monday, March 20, 2017
中学
ちゅうがく
- 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).
middle school, junior high school
Taken apart
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In a sentence
私は去年中学３年生だった。
I was in the third year of middle school last year.
やっと中学を卒業しました。
At last, I graduated from junior high school.
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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.