First opened Sunday, November 18, 2018

回答

かいとう

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).

reply, answer

JLPT N2Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verbintransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 回答

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金曜日(きんようび)までに回答(かいとう)が必要(ひつよう)です。
I need to know your answer by Friday.
Tatoeba #179610, translation #18468
それは我々(われわれ)がまったく回答(かいとう)できない問題(もんだい)だ。
It's a problem we do not have any answer for.
Tatoeba #205307, translation #42550

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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.

回答

Taken apart

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What the labels mean

Also read かいとう

Also opened on November 18