First opened Wednesday, May 12, 2021
手入れ
ていれ
- tail-high (odaka): falls after mora 3
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
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).
repairs, maintenance
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
庭の手入れでもしようかな。
Why don't I try to do something about the garden?
本店は警察の手入れを受けた。
The main office was raided by the police.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.