First opened Tuesday, February 2, 2021
幼稚
ようち
- 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).
infancy, childish, infantile
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
幼稚な説得とは、人をしつこく唆すことだ。
Crude persuasion is to persistently egg someone on.
彼らは幼稚すぎて学ぶことの必要性を理解できなかった。
They were too naive to understand the necessity of studying.
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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.