First opened Monday, September 13, 2021
根本
こんぽん
- flat (heiban)
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
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).
foundation, root, base
Taken apart
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In a sentence
挨拶は礼儀作法の根本である。
Greetings are the basis of good manners.
多数決原理が民主主義の根本原則だ。
Majority rule is a basic principle of democracy.
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What Wiktionary says
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