First opened Sunday, May 27, 2018
深夜
しんや
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
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).
late at night
Taken apart
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In a sentence
私はよく深夜にラジオを聞いたものだ。
I used to listen to the radio very late at night.
彼は四人の警官によって深夜拉致された。
He was spirited away by four police officers in the middle of the night.
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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.