First opened Thursday, February 13, 2020
絵の具
えのぐ
- 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).
colors, paints
Taken apart
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In a sentence
赤い絵の具に青い絵の具を混ぜなさい。
Blend the red paint with the blue paint.
青い絵の具と黄色の絵の具を混ぜなさい。
Blend the blue paint with the yellow paint.
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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.