First opened Wednesday, December 22, 2021
現行
げんこう
- 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).
present, current, in operation
Taken apart
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In a sentence
現行の法律は人種の多様性を考慮していない。
Existing legislation does not take diversity of races into account.
車の事故に関する現行の法は手直しが必要である。
The existing law concerning car accidents requires amending.
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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.