First opened Wednesday, March 25, 2020
特色
とくしょく
- 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).
characteristic, feature
Taken apart
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In a sentence
湿気の多い気候はその半島の特色です。
A humid climate is characteristic of the peninsula.
日本には多くのはっきりとした特色がある。
Japan has many distinctive traits.
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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.