First opened Friday, September 13, 2019
下町
したまち
- 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).
old parts of town
Taken apart
We don't have the data for this section. Wiktionary has no Etymology section for this reading, and a split made without one would be a guess.
In a sentence
彼女は下町で生まれ育った。
She was born and brought up on the backstreets.
ディッケンズの考えが、ロンドンの下町の生き生きした描写と共に読者には伝わる。
Dickens' thoughts come across along with the vivid depiction of old London.
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What Wiktionary says
We don't have the data for this section. The pinned Wiktionary dump has no Etymology section for this reading, so nothing is said about where the word comes from.
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.