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First opened Tuesday, September 17, 2019

実感

じっかん

  • 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).

feelings, realization

JLPT N2Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 実感

In a sentence

  • 動(うご)けるようになると健康(けんこう)の有難(ありがた)さを実感(じっかん)しますよね。

    It's when you become able to move that the real value of health hits home.

    Tatoeba #75221, translation #328498

  • オーストラリアへ行(い)って初(はじ)めて、日本(にほん)はなんと小(ちい)さい国(くに)かと実感(じっかん)した。

    I didn't realize till I visited Australia how small Japan really is.

    Tatoeba #227788, translation #65141

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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 September 17

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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