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First opened Tuesday, March 5, 2019

漁業

ぎょぎょう

  • 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).

fishing (industry)

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

Taken apart

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Written with 漁業

In a sentence

  • その島(しま)の経済(けいざい)は漁業(ぎょぎょう)に依存(いぞん)している。

    The economy of the island is dependent on the fishing industry.

    Tatoeba #207496, translation #44749

  • 村人(むらびと)たちは主(しゅ)として漁業(ぎょぎょう)に従事(じゅうじ)している。

    The villagers are occupied mainly with fishing.

    Tatoeba #138891, translation #274590

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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 March 5

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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