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First opened Sunday, May 13, 2018

白髪

しらが

  • tail-high (odaka): 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).

white or grey hair, trendy hair bleaching

JLPT N2Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

Taken apart

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Written with 白髪

In a sentence

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What Wiktionary says

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Also opened on May 13

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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