First opened Monday, March 18, 2019
苦情
くじょう
- 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).
complaint, grievance, grumble
Taken apart
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In a sentence
生業の苦情を言うな。
Don't quarrel with your bread and butter.
住民たちは騒音に対して苦情を訴えた。
The residents made complaints about the noise.
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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.