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First opened Tuesday, May 21, 2019

強引

ごういん

  • 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).

forcible, assertive, pushy

JLPT N2Commonadjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)noun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 強引

In a sentence

  • 与党(よとう)は強引(ごういん)に税制(ぜいせい)法案(ほうあん)を通過(つうか)させた。

    The ruling party pushed its tax bill through.

    Tatoeba #78933, translation #324783

  • 政府(せいふ)はその法案(ほうあん)を強引(ごういん)に議会(ぎかい)を通過(つうか)させた。

    The government pushed the bill through the Diet.

    Tatoeba #143127, translation #271441

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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 May 21

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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