First opened Saturday, February 18, 2023
簡潔
かんけつ
- 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).
brevity, concise, simple
Taken apart
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In a sentence
簡潔は機知の精髄。
Brevity is the soul of wit.
簡潔な説明をしろ。
I need a concise explanation.
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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.