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First opened Tuesday, February 20, 2018

年鑑

ねんかん

  • 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).

yearbook

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

Taken apart

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Written with 年鑑

In a sentence

  • この年鑑(ねんかん)には美(うつく)しい写真(しゃしん)がたくさん載(の)っている。

    This yearbook is illustrated with a lot of beautiful photographs.

    Tatoeba #220218, translation #57537

  • 傾向(けいこう)を発見(はっけん)するため、1950年(ねん)から1970年(ねん)までのXYZ年鑑(ねんかん)を調(しら)べた。

    The XYZ Almanacs from 1950 to 1970 were studied to discover the trend.

    Tatoeba #176647, translation #237815

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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 ねんかん

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.

  • 年鑑This word

    yearbook

    ねんかん flat (heiban)

  • 年間

    year

    ねんかん flat (heiban)

Also opened on February 20

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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