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First opened Tuesday, January 22, 2019

観測

かんそく

  • 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).

observation

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

Taken apart

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Written with 観測

In a sentence

  • ジャンスキーが観測(かんそく)したのは銀河系(ぎんがけい)の中心(ちゅうしん)核(かく)からの波長(はちょう)14.6mの電波(でんぱ)であった。

    What Jansky had observed was the 14.6m wavelength radio wave from the Milky Way's core.

    Tatoeba #74551, translation #329168

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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 22

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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