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First opened Tuesday, August 25, 2020

不潔

ふけつ

  • 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).

unclean, dirty

JLPT N2Commonadjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)noun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 不潔

In a sentence

  • 不潔(ふけつ)は病気(びょうき)を生(う)み出(だ)す。

    Filth breeds illnesses.

    Tatoeba #85110, translation #318603

  • レストランの不潔(ふけつ)な皿(さら)に私(わたし)達(たち)は吐(は)き気(け)を催(もよお)させられた。

    The dirty plates in the restaurant disgusted us.

    Tatoeba #192347, translation #29510

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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 August 25

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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