First opened Friday, December 27, 2019
慌ただしい
あわただしい
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 5
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).
busy, hurried
Taken apart
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Written with 慌
In a sentence
飛行機の辺りで人の動きがあわただしかった。
There was much activity around the plane.
トムは気難しい顔で、人々があわただしくドアから出て行くのを見ていた。
Tom watched them hurry through the doors, a disagreeable expression on his face.
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What Wiktionary says
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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.