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First opened Thursday, June 20, 2019

交流

こうりゅう

  • 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).

exchange; alternating current

JLPT N2Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suruintransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 交流

In a sentence

  • 彼(かれ)らは社会(しゃかい)的(てき)交流(こうりゅう)の象徴(しょうちょう)を少(すこ)し失(うしな)った。

    They lost some symbols of social intercourse.

    Tatoeba #96895, translation #306809

  • ときに君(きみ)の喜(よろこ)びと君(きみ)の真剣(しんけん)な職業(しょくぎょう)とを交流(こうりゅう)せしめよ。

    Mingle your joys sometimes with your earnest occupation.

    Tatoeba #201049, translation #38255

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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 June 20

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