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First opened Monday, April 15, 2019

競馬

けいば

  • 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).

horse racing

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

Taken apart

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Written with 競馬

In a sentence

  • ダービー競馬(けいば)の日(ひ)は2週間(しゅうかん)後(ご)の水曜日(すいようび)だ。

    Derby Day is Wednesday fortnight.

    Tatoeba #204003, translation #41245

  • 鳩山(はとやま)さんが競馬(けいば)で妻子(さいし)を養(やしな)っていると言(い)っています。

    Hatoyama says that he supports his family by gambling on horse racing.

    Tatoeba #170319, translation #244164

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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 April 15

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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