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First opened Thursday, May 6, 2021

低下

ていか

  • 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).

fall, decline

JLPT N2Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suruintransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 低下

In a sentence

  • 最近(さいきん)、出生(しゅっしょう)率(りつ)は低下(ていか)し続(つづ)けている。

    The birth rate has been decreasing recently.

    Tatoeba #170739, translation #243742

  • この国(くに)では出生(しゅっしょう)率(りつ)が急速(きゅうそく)に低下(ていか)している。

    The birthrate is rapidly declining in this country.

    Tatoeba #221954, translation #59280

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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 read ていか

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • 低下This word

    fall, decline

    ていか flat (heiban)

  • 定価

    established price

    ていか flat (heiban)

Also opened on May 6

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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