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First opened Friday, March 3, 2023

肝腎

かんじん

  • 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).

essential, fundamental, crucial

JLPT N1Commonadjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'noun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 肝腎

In a sentence

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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.

Also read かんじん

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.

  • 肝腎This word

    essential, fundamental, crucial

    かんじん flat (heiban)

  • 肝心

    essential, fundamental, crucial

    かんじん flat (heiban)

Also opened on March 3

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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