First opened Friday, October 2, 2020
別々
べつべつ
- 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).
separately, individually
Taken apart
We don't have the data for this section. Wiktionary has no Etymology section for this reading, and a split made without one would be a guess.
Written with 別
In a sentence
我々は別れて別々の道を行った。
We broke up and went our own ways.
最初は別々だったんですがある日一緒行き帰りするようになりました。
At first we used to go separately, but one day we started going and returning together.
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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.