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First opened Thursday, April 26, 2018

生ずる

しょうずる

  • flat (heiban)
  • middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3

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 cause, to arise, to be generated

JLPT N2CommonIchidan verb - zuru verb (alternative form of -jiru verbs)transitive verbintransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 生

In a sentence

  • 再(さい)開発(かいはつ)によって地域(ちいき)に便益(べんえき)が生(しょう)ずる。

    Benefits accrue to the community from reconstruction.

    Tatoeba #170810, translation #243670

  • この構成(こうせい)において、三角(さんかく)形の代(か)わりに長方形(ちょうほうけい)を用(もち)いても類似(るいじ)の困難(こんなん)が生(しょう)ずる。

    We encounter similar difficulties when we substitute rectangles for triangles in this configuration.

    Tatoeba #221980, translation #59306

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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.

Related in the dictionary

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See also
  • 生じるしょうじるto occur, to arise, to be generated

Also opened on April 26

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