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First opened Sunday, April 30, 2017

定期

ていき

  • 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).

fixed term

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

Taken apart

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Written with 定期

In a sentence

  • 彼(かれ)らは定期(ていき)旅客船(りょかくせん)に乗(の)り込(こ)んだ。

    They went on board a liner.

    Tatoeba #96516, translation #307189

  • 定期(ていき)雑誌(ざっし)類(るい)は閲覧(えつらん)室(しつ)より帯出(たいしゅつ)禁止(きんし)。

    Periodicals may not be removed from the reading room.

    Tatoeba #125543, translation #278449

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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.

Also opened on April 30

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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