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First opened Friday, March 30, 2018

主役

しゅやく

  • 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).

leading part

JLPT N2Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

We don't have the data for this section. Wiktionary has no Etymology section for this reading, and a split made without one would be a guess.

Written with 主役

In a sentence

  • 私(わたし)の妹(いもうと)が主役(しゅやく)を演(えん)じた。

    My sister played the leading character.

    Tatoeba #162624, translation #251890

  • ケイトは映画(えいが)で主役(しゅやく)を演(えん)じる機会(きかい)を与(あた)えられました。

    Kate has been given an opportunity to play a major role in a movie.

    Tatoeba #225356, translation #62693

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What Wiktionary says

We don't have the data for this section. The pinned Wiktionary dump has no Etymology section for this reading, so nothing is said about where the word comes from.

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 opened on March 30

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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