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First opened Tuesday, December 18, 2018

箇所

かしょ

  • 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).

place, point, part

JLPT N2Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 箇所

In a sentence

  • この湖(みずうみ)はこの箇所(かしょ)が一番(いちばん)深(ふか)い。

    The lake is deepest at this point.

    Tatoeba #222032, translation #59356

  • 私(わたし)はスキー中(ちゅう)に2箇所(かしょ)も骨折(こっせつ)した。

    I broke my leg in two places during a skiing mishap.

    Tatoeba #160559, translation #253962

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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.

Also opened on December 18

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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