First opened Friday, September 30, 2022
公
おおやけ
- 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).
public
Taken apart
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Written with 公
In a sentence
その老人は１０年前に公の生活から引退した。
The old man retired from public life ten years ago.
その政治家は前言を取り消して公に謝罪するはめになった。
The politician had to take back his words and eat crow.
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What Wiktionary says
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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.