First opened Tuesday, September 7, 2021
根気
こんき
- 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).
patience; perseverance, energy
Taken apart
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In a sentence
もう少し根気があったら成功していただろう。
With a little more patience, you would have succeeded.
この種の仕事には大変な根気が必要とされる。
This sort of work calls for a lot of patience.
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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.