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First opened Friday, January 12, 2018

女史

じょし

  • head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1

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).

Ms.

JLPT N3Commonnoun, used as a suffixhonorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 女史

In a sentence

  • コブ女史(じょし)が帰(かえ)ってくる日(ひ)が待(ま)ち遠(どお)しいよ。ほんとに。

    I'm looking forward to the day when Miss Cobb comes back, I can tell you.

    Tatoeba #219102, translation #56418

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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 じょし

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.

  • 女史This word

    Ms.

    じょ↓し head-high (atamadaka)

  • 助詞

    (gram) particle(s), postposition

    じょし flat (heiban)

  • 女子

    woman, girl

    じょ↓し head-high (atamadaka)

Also opened on January 12

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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