First opened Saturday, August 12, 2017
覗く
のぞく
- flat (heiban)
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).
to peek in, to look in
Taken apart
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Written with 覗
In a sentence
私は戸棚を覗いた。
I looked in the cupboard.
犬は水の中をのぞいた。
The dog looked into the water.
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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.