First opened Saturday, June 20, 2020
発電
はつでん
- 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).
generation (e.g., power)
Taken apart
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In a sentence
原子力が発電に使われている。
Nuclear power is used to generate electricity.
太陽熱は日本では発電より太陽熱温水器として利用されています。
In Japan solar heat is used more for solar water heaters than for electricity generation.
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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.