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First opened Friday, January 5, 2018

視点

してん

  • 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).

opinion, point of view, visual point

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

Taken apart

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Written with 視点

In a sentence

  • これは十分(じゅうぶん)根拠(こんきょ)のある視点(してん)だ。

    This is a valid point of view.

    Tatoeba #218270, translation #55582

  • 私(わたし)たちはその問題(もんだい)を子供(こども)の視点(してん)から考慮(こうりょ)すべきである。

    We should consider the problem from a child's point of view.

    Tatoeba #166343, translation #248160

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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 read してん

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.

  • 視点This word

    opinion, point of view, visual point

    してん flat (heiban)

  • 支店

    branch store (office)

    してん flat (heiban)

Also opened on January 5

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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