First opened Wednesday, September 16, 2020
文献
ぶんけん
- 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).
literature, books (reference)
Taken apart
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In a sentence
専門の図書館が芸術に関する文献を収集している。
Specialized libraries collect writings about art.
その事実は古い文献のいくつかに見出される。
The facts are buried in a few old books.
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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.