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First opened Sunday, January 7, 2018

修飾

しゅうしょく

  • 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).

ornamentation; modification (gram)

JLPT N3noun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 修飾

In a sentence

  • 名詞(めいし)を修飾(しゅうしょく)するもの(形容詞(けいようし)、または形容詞(けいようし)相当(そうとう)語句(ごく))。

    Things that modify nouns (adjective, or adjectival equivalent).

    Tatoeba #75098, translation #328621

  • 名詞(めいし)を修飾(しゅうしょく)するものは、形容詞(けいようし)または形容詞(けいようし)相当(そうとう)語句(ごく)です。

    Things that modify nouns are adjectives or equivalent to adjectives.

    Tatoeba #10109643, translation #10109654

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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 しゅうしょく

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.

  • 修飾This word

    ornamentation; modification (gram)

    しゅうしょく flat (heiban)

  • 就職

    finding employment

    しゅうしょく flat (heiban)

Also opened on January 7

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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