First opened Thursday, January 6, 2022
当人
とうにん
- 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).
the one concerned, the said person
Taken apart
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In a sentence
当人のいないところで悪口を言うべきでない。
You shouldn't speak ill of a man behind his back.
当人がいないところで悪口を言うべきではない。
It is the place where there is no person in question, and you shouldn't say abuse.
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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.