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First opened Sunday, May 1, 2022

日夜

にちや

  • 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).

day and night, always

JLPT N1Commonadverb (fukushi)noun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 日夜

In a sentence

  • 彼(かれ)は日夜(にちや)働(はたら)いて過労(かろう)になった。

    He worked day and night and overworked himself.

    Tatoeba #101439, translation #302256

  • 彼(かれ)は金持(かねも)ちになるために、日夜(にちや)働(はたら)いた。

    He worked day and night so that he might become rich.

    Tatoeba #108165, translation #295521

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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 May 1

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