First opened Wednesday, June 12, 2019
高度
こうど
- 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).
altitude, height; advanced
Taken apart
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In a sentence
太陽の高度は２０度である。
The solar altitude is 20 degrees.
日本では稲作が高度に発達した。
Rice farming has been developed to a high degree in Japan.
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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.