First opened Thursday, May 20, 2021
鉄橋
てっきょう
- 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).
iron bridge
Taken apart
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In a sentence
鉄橋が川にかけられた。
An iron bridge was built across the river.
鉄橋まで川沿いに歩いて行った。
I walked along the river until I got to the iron bridge.
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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.