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First opened Wednesday, July 20, 2022

挑む

いどむ

  • middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2

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).

to challenge

JLPT N1CommonGodan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb和語 · Native Japanese

Taken apart

We don't have the data for this section. Wiktionary has no Etymology section for this reading, and a split made without one would be a guess.

Written with 挑

In a sentence

  • 魔王(まおう)が神(かみ)に野球(やきゅう)で勝負(しょうぶ)を挑(いど)んだ。

    The devil challenged God to a baseball game.

    Tatoeba #81445, translation #322270

  • 彼女(かのじょ)は次々(つぎつぎ)と論戦(ろんせん)に挑(いど)んでいる。

    She has waded into one controversy after another.

    Tatoeba #89154, translation #314552

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What Wiktionary says

We don't have the data for this section. The pinned Wiktionary dump has no Etymology section for this reading, so nothing is said about where the word comes from.

What the labels mean

和語 Native Japanese
Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.

Also opened on July 20

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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