First opened Monday, March 27, 2023
効き目
ききめ
- 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).
effect, virtue, efficacy
Taken apart
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In a sentence
その薬の効きめが現れた。
The medicine took effect.
薬の効き目を調べてみます。
I will find out how the medicine works.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.