First opened Sunday, August 23, 2020
複数
ふくすう
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
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).
plural, multiple
Taken apart
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In a sentence
アジアの宗教から閃きを得て、彼は複数の素晴らしい彫刻を生み出した。
Asian religions inspire him to create splendid sculptures.
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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.