First opened Thursday, October 28, 2021
山岳
さんがく
- 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).
mountains
Taken apart
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In a sentence
山岳救助隊は２４時間待機している。
The mountain rescue team is on call 24 hours a day.
ついに病気で疲れた男たちは彼が待っている山岳都市に到着した。
Finally, the sick, tired men reached the mountain town where he was waiting.
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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.