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First opened Thursday, December 1, 2022

概念

がいねん

  • 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).

general idea, concept, notion

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

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.

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In a sentence

  • 彼(かれ)の福祉(ふくし)の概念(がいねん)はかなり観念(かんねん)的(てき)だ。

    His notion of welfare is pretty abstract.

    Tatoeba #116195, translation #287474

  • この章(しょう)では幾何(きか)学(がく)の概念(がいねん)に焦点(しょうてん)をあてます。

    This chapter will focus on the concepts of geometry.

    Tatoeba #221122, translation #58444

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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 opened on December 1

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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