First opened Monday, November 23, 2020
民間
みんかん
- 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).
private, civilian
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.
In a sentence
今度の税金は全ての民間企業に適用される。
This tax is applied to all private-sector enterprises.
民間機が軍事的領域を侵犯したとのことです。
A commercial airplane allegedly violated military airspace.
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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.