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First opened Wednesday, November 16, 2022

回収

かいしゅう

  • 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).

collection, recovery

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 回収

In a sentence

  • いよいよ賭(か)け金(きん)を回収(かいしゅう)するときがきました。

    It's time to call in our chips.

    Tatoeba #228462, translation #65819

  • しかし回収(かいしゅう)時間(じかん)が早(はや)すぎるため、ゴミの日(ひ)に出(だ)すことが難(むずか)しいです。

    Moreover it's difficult to get rubbish out for garbage day because the collection time is too early.

    Tatoeba #74980, translation #328739

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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

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 read かいしゅう

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.

  • 回収This word

    collection, recovery

    かいしゅう flat (heiban)

  • 改修

    repair, improvement

    かいしゅう flat (heiban)

Also opened on November 16

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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