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First opened Sunday, December 26, 2021

原子

げんし

  • 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).

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JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)physicschemistry漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 原子

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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.

Also read げんし

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • 原子This word

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    げ↓んし head-high (atamadaka)

  • 原始

    origin, primeval

    げ↓んし head-high (atamadaka)

Also opened on December 26

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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