First opened Saturday, December 25, 2021
検事
けんじ
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
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).
public prosecutor
Taken apart
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In a sentence
検事は誘導尋問をした。
The prosecutor asked me a leading question.
懲役２年の判決に地方検事は不満だった。
The district attorney wasn't content with a two-year sentence.
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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.