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First opened Friday, January 18, 2019

感激

かんげき

  • 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).

deep emotion, impression, inspiration

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

Taken apart

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Written with 感激

In a sentence

  • 我(わ)がチームにお迎(むか)えでき、感激(かんげき)します。

    We are excited about having you on our team.

    Tatoeba #186451, translation #23587

  • 彼(かれ)の言葉(ことば)で彼女(かのじょ)は感激(かんげき)のあまり涙(なみだ)ぐんだ。

    His words moved her to tears.

    Tatoeba #117528, translation #286136

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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 January 18

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