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First opened Wednesday, March 16, 2022

鈍感

どんかん

  • 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).

thickheadedness, stolidity

JLPT N1Commonadjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)noun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 鈍感

In a sentence

  • 概(がい)してエリート達(たち)は批判(ひはん)に対(たい)して鈍感(どんかん)である。

    On the whole, the elite are not sensitive to criticism.

    Tatoeba #184681, translation #21809

  • 僕(ぼく)は流行(りゅうこう)に鈍感(どんかん)だって、君(きみ)は言(い)っているけどね。

    And you say I don't have a nose for what's popular.

    Tatoeba #81736, translation #321979

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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.

Also opened on March 16

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