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First opened Saturday, July 3, 2021

講習

こうしゅう

  • 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).

short course, training

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 講習

In a sentence

  • 彼女(かのじょ)は週(しゅう)に一(いち)度(ど)料理(りょうり)の講習(こうしゅう)を受(う)ける。

    She takes cooking lessons once a week.

    Tatoeba #88784, translation #314923

  • 集中(しゅうちゅう)講習(こうしゅう)で私(わたし)のフランス語(ご)は驚(おどろ)くほど上達(じょうたつ)した。

    The intensive course did wonders for my French.

    Tatoeba #148103, translation #266456

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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 こうしゅう

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.

  • 講習This word

    short course, training

    こうしゅう flat (heiban)

  • 公衆

    the public

    こうしゅう flat (heiban)

Also opened on July 3

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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