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First opened Thursday, May 25, 2017

同時

どうじ

  • flat (heiban)
  • 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).

simultaneous(ly), same time

JLPT N3Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or verb acting prenominally漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 同時

In a sentence

  • 二(に)機(き)のジェット機(き)が同時(どうじ)に離陸(りりく)した。

    Two jet planes took off at the same time.

    Tatoeba #123149, translation #280851

  • 同時(どうじ)通訳(つうやく)によって言語(げんご)の障壁(しょうへき)が崩(くず)れた。

    Simultaneous translation broke linguistic walls.

    Tatoeba #123674, translation #280321

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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 May 25

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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