First opened Friday, April 19, 2019
下旬
げじゅん
- 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).
month (last third of)
Taken apart
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In a sentence
８月下旬に彼らは繁殖のために長い旅に出発します。
In late August, they set off on a long journey for breeding.
その結果、５月下旬に不安神経症や不眠症と診断された。
As a result, he was diagnosed with insomnia and anxiety neurosis near the end of May.
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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.