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First opened Friday, July 23, 2021

購読

こうどく

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 N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verbnouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 購読

In a sentence

うちは新聞(しんぶん)を購読(こうどく)しています。
We take a newspaper.
Tatoeba #228144, translation #65498
私(わたし)は新聞(しんぶん)を２種類(しゅるい)購読(こうどく)している。
I subscribe to two newspapers.
Tatoeba #155706, translation #258831

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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 こうどく

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.

購読This word
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こうどく flat (heiban)
講読
reading
こうどく flat (heiban)

Also opened on July 23

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