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First opened Sunday, June 20, 2021

工学

こうがく

  • flat (heiban)
  • 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).

engineering

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

Taken apart

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Written with 工学

In a sentence

  • その大学生(だいがくせい)は工学(こうがく)を学(まな)んでいます。

    That college student is studying engineering.

    Tatoeba #522655, translation #522660

  • 僕(ぼく)は大学(だいがく)で工学(こうがく)を専攻(せんこう)するつもりだ。

    I plan to take up engineering at college.

    Tatoeba #81824, translation #321891

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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 20

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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