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First opened Tuesday, May 25, 2021

伝記

でんき

  • 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).

biography, life story

JLPT N2Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'漢語 · Sino-Japanese

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.

Written with 伝記

In a sentence

  • 偉大(いだい)な天才(てんさい)は最短(さいたん)の伝記(でんき)を有(ゆう)する。

    Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

    Tatoeba #191129, translation #28289

  • 彼(かれ)はある有名(ゆうめい)な詩人(しじん)の伝記(でんき)を書(か)いた。

    He wrote a biography of a famous poet.

    Tatoeba #114754, translation #288917

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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 でんき

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.

  • 伝記This word

    biography, life story

    でんき flat (heiban)

  • 電気

    electricity, (electric) light

    で↓んき head-high (atamadaka)

Also opened on May 25

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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