First opened Wednesday, February 21, 2018
臨む
のぞむ
- 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).
to look out on, to face, to attend (function)
Taken apart
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Written with 臨
In a sentence
彼はレースにのぞんで精神統一した。
He psyched himself up for the race.
心身共にベストのコンディションで新人養成合宿に臨みましょう。
With both mind and body in their best condition, let's look forward to the newcomers' training camp.
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.