First opened Thursday, November 24, 2022
開拓
かいたく
- 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).
cultivation, pioneer
Taken apart
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In a sentence
開拓民たちはキリスト教を信奉した。
The settlers embraced the Christian religion.
新たな入植者達がその広大な荒野を開拓した。
The newcomers cultivated the immense wilderness.
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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.