First opened Saturday, March 25, 2023
危機
きき
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
- tail-high (odaka): falls after mora 2
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).
crisis
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼女はもう危機をのがれた。
She was now out of danger.
わが国は危機に陥っている。
Our country is in a crisis.
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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.