First opened Sunday, March 15, 2020
灯台
とうだい
- 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).
lighthouse
Taken apart
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In a sentence
遠い灯台のかすかな光を見た。
We saw the gleam of a distant lighthouse.
遠方にほの白い灯台が立っていた。
In the distance, there stood a dimly white lighthouse.
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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.