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First opened Tuesday, June 8, 2021

厳密

げんみつ

  • 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).

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JLPT N1Commonadjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 厳密

In a sentence

  • 彼(かれ)らは船長(せんちょう)の命令(めいれい)を厳密(げんみつ)に実行(じっこう)した。

    They carried out the captain's order to the letter.

    Tatoeba #96673, translation #307032

  • 私(わたし)たちは船長(せんちょう)の命令(めいれい)を厳密(げんみつ)に実行(じっこう)した。

    We carried out the captain's order to the letter.

    Tatoeba #165520, translation #248985

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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 opened on June 8

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