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First opened Tuesday, September 19, 2017

羽根

はね

  • 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).

feather

JLPT N3Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)和語 · Native Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 羽根

In a sentence

  • 羽(はね)に深(ふか)い傷(きず)を負(お)った小鳥(ことり)を見(み)つけました。

    I found a bird whose wing was severely damaged.

    Tatoeba #189854, translation #27011

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What Wiktionary says

We don't have the data for this section. The pinned Wiktionary dump has no Etymology section for this reading, so nothing is said about where the word comes from.

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 はね

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.

  • 羽根This word

    feather

    はね flat (heiban)

  • 羽

    wing

    はね flat (heiban)

Also opened on September 19

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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