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First opened Monday, January 15, 2018

振興

しんこう

  • 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).

promotion, encouragement

JLPT N3Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verbintransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 振興

In a sentence

  • 政府(せいふ)は工業(こうぎょう)の振興(しんこう)計画(けいかく)を開始(かいし)した。

    The government started a program to promote industry.

    Tatoeba #143101, translation #271467

  • 政府(せいふ)は国内(こくない)産業(さんぎょう)振興(しんこう)の方策(ほうさく)を講(こう)じた。

    The government has taken measures to promote domestic industry.

    Tatoeba #143098, translation #271470

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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 しんこう

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.

  • 振興This word

    promotion, encouragement

    しんこう flat (heiban)

  • 信仰

    (religious) faith, belief

    しんこう flat (heiban)

  • 進行

    advance

    しんこう flat (heiban)

  • 新興

    rising, developing, emergent

    しんこう flat (heiban)

Also opened on January 15

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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