First opened Saturday, June 5, 2021

原点

げんてん

head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
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).

origin (coordinates, starting point)

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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In a sentence

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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 げんてん

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.

原点This word
origin (coordinates, starting point)
げ↓んてん head-high (atamadaka); げんてん flat (heiban)
原典
original, source
げんてん flat (heiban); げ↓んてん head-high (atamadaka)

Also opened on June 5

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