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First opened Thursday, January 24, 2019

勘違い

かんちがい

  • middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3

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).

misunderstanding, wrong guess

JLPT N2Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suruintransitive verb混種語 · Hybrid

Taken apart

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Written with 勘違

In a sentence

  • 彼(かれ)はクラスで一(いち)番(ばん)頭(あたま)がいいと勘違(かんちが)いしている。

    He has the illusion that he is the smartest in his class.

    Tatoeba #113946, translation #289727

  • 彼女(かのじょ)が会(あ)いにくるだろうと思(おも)ったのは彼(かれ)の勘違(かんちが)いだった。

    He was in error in assuming that she would come to see him.

    Tatoeba #95490, translation #308215

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What Wiktionary says

We don't have the data for this section. The pinned Wiktionary dump has no Etymology section for this reading, so nothing is said about where the word comes from.

What the labels mean

混種語 Hybrid
Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.

Also opened on January 24

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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