First opened Monday, November 14, 2022
介護
かいご
- 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).
nursing
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.
In a sentence
来年から日本では介護保険制度が始まるね。
The new national elder-care insurance system starts next year, right?
彼らは手の空いた時間の一部を病人の介護にあてている。
They give part of their spare time to take care of the sick.
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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.