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First opened Friday, August 13, 2021

戸籍

こせき

  • 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).

census, family register

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

Taken apart

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Written with 戸籍

In a sentence

  • 彼女(かのじょ)はまだ夫(おっと)の戸籍(こせき)に入(はい)っていない。

    She has not yet had her name entered in her husband's family.

    Tatoeba #91469, translation #312244

  • 戸籍(こせき)上(じょう)の縁(えん)は切(き)れても、昔日(せきじつ)の絆(きずな)はそのままだ。

    Our connection may be cut on paper but the bonds of old remain as they were.

    Tatoeba #76182, translation #327536

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What Wiktionary says

We don't have the data for this section. The pinned Wiktionary dump has no Etymology section for this reading, so nothing is said about where the word comes from.

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 August 13

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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