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農薬
のうやく
- 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).
agricultural chemicals
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼らは果樹に農薬を散布している。
They are spraying the fruit trees.
無農薬栽培とは、農薬を使わずに穀物、野菜、果物などの植物を栽培する方法です。
Organic cultivation is a method of growing plants (grains, vegetables, fruit, etc.) without using agricultural chemicals.
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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.