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First opened Sunday, June 21, 2020

発売

はつばい

  • 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).

sale

JLPT N2Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 発売

In a sentence

  • あなたの本(ほん)はいつ発売(はつばい)されるのですか。

    When is your book coming out?

    Tatoeba #233022, translation #70391

  • 彼(かれ)の自叙伝(じじょでん)が今日(きょう)発売(はつばい)され、午前(ごぜん)中(ちゅう)に完売(かんばい)した。

    His autobiography was released today and was sold out by noon.

    Tatoeba #117124, translation #286542

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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.

Also opened on June 21

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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