First opened Sunday, August 1, 2021
公立
こうりつ
- 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).
public institution
Taken apart
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In a sentence
この町には大きな公立図書館がある。
This town boasts a large public library.
我々は公立図書館を持つことを市民の当然の権利と考えている。
We consider it the citizens' legitimate right to have public libraries.
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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.