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First opened Thursday, March 30, 2023

基金

ききん

  • middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
  • head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1

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).

fund, foundation

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 基金

In a sentence

  • 孤児(こじ)を助(たす)けるために基金(ききん)が設立(せつりつ)された。

    The fund was set up to help orphans.

    Tatoeba #174566, translation #239903

  • 彼(かれ)は難民(なんみん)救済(きゅうさい)基金(ききん)に1万(まん)ドルを寄付(きふ)した。

    He donated $10000 to the refugee fund.

    Tatoeba #101549, translation #302145

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What Wiktionary says

We don't have the data for this section. The pinned Wiktionary dump has no Etymology section for this reading, so nothing is said about where the word comes from.

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 ききん

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.

  • 基金This word

    fund, foundation

    きき↓ん middle-high (nakadaka); き↓きん head-high (atamadaka)

  • 飢饉

    famine

    きき↓ん middle-high (nakadaka); き↓きん head-high (atamadaka)

Also opened on March 30

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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