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工事
こうじ
- 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).
construction work
Taken apart
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In a sentence
工事は着々と完成に近づいている。
The construction work is steadily nearing completion.
作業員は新しい家に配線工事をしている。
The workers are wiring the new house.
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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.