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First opened Saturday, March 18, 2023

緩和

かんわ

  • 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).

relief, mitigation

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

Taken apart

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Written with 緩和

In a sentence

  • 需給(じゅきゅう)関係(かんけい)が緩和(かんわ)している。

    The supply-demand balance is relaxing.

    Tatoeba #148314, translation #266245

  • 日(にち)米(べい)間(かん)の摩擦(まさつ)は緩和(かんわ)の方向(ほうこう)に向(む)かっています。

    Frictions between Japan and the U.S. are easing up for a change.

    Tatoeba #122844, translation #281158

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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 かんわ

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.

  • 緩和This word

    relief, mitigation

    かんわ flat (heiban)

  • 漢和

    Chinese Character-Japanese (e.g., dictionary)

    かんわ flat (heiban)

Also opened on March 18

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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