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First opened Wednesday, December 16, 2020

免税

めんぜい

  • 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).

tax exemption

JLPT N2Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verbintransitive verbnouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 免税

In a sentence

  • この品物(しなもの)は全部(ぜんぶ)免税(めんぜい)です。

    These articles are all exempt from duty.

    Tatoeba #220097, translation #57416

  • 外国(がいこく)人(じん)旅行(りょこう)者(しゃ)には免税(めんぜい)の特権(とっけん)がある。

    We give foreign tourists the privilege of tax exemption.

    Tatoeba #184747, translation #21876

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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 December 16

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