First opened Saturday, June 22, 2019
効力
こうりょく
- 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).
effect, efficacy
Taken apart
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In a sentence
その法律は効力が無くなっている。
The law is not in effect any longer.
その法律はもう効力はなくなっている。
The law is not in effect any longer.
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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.