First opened Wednesday, September 30, 2020
隔てる
へだてる
- 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).
to separate, to isolate; to interpose
Taken apart
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Written with 隔
In a sentence
二つの町は川で隔てられている。
The two towns are separated by a river.
日本海は日本とアジア大陸を隔てている。
The Japan Sea separates Japan from the Asian Continent.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.