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First opened Monday, January 8, 2018

私用

しよう

  • 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).

personal use, private business

JLPT N3Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surunouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'transitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 私用

In a sentence

  • 上司(じょうし)は会社(かいしゃ)の電話(でんわ)で私用(しよう)の電話(でんわ)をかけたといって私(わたし)をひどく叱(しか)った。

    My boss called me down for making private calls on the office phone.

    Tatoeba #146240, translation #268322

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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.

Related in the dictionary

The words JMdict points to from this word's sense. A word that has opened links to its day; the others are named as JMdict writes them.

Opposite
  • 公用こうようgovernment business, public use, public expense

Also read しよう

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.

  • 私用This word

    personal use, private business

    しよう flat (heiban)

  • 仕様

    way, method, specification

    しよう flat (heiban)

  • 使用

    use (same as 使うこと (つかうこと)), application, employment, utilization

    しよう flat (heiban)

Also opened on January 8

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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