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First opened Sunday, July 31, 2022

陰気

いんき

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gloom, melancholy

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

Taken apart

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Written with 陰気

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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.

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Opposite
  • 陽気ようきseason, weather, cheerfulness

Also read いんき

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.

  • 陰気This word

    gloom, melancholy

    No pitch accent shown

  • インキ

    ink

    No pitch accent shown

Also opened on July 31

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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