First opened Wednesday, February 20, 2019
客間
きゃくま
- 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).
parlor, guest room
Taken apart
We don't have the data for this section. Wiktionary has no Etymology section for this reading, and a split made without one would be a guess.
In a sentence
この書斎は客間兼用だ。
I also use this study for receiving guests.
夜遅くに、若い男は少女とふたりきりで長い間客間に座っていた。
The young man had been sitting in the drawing room alone with the girl for a long time, and it was getting late.
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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.