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First opened Saturday, April 8, 2023

気象

きしょう

  • 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).

weather, climate

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 気象

In a sentence

  • 機長(きちょう)は気象(きしょう)訓示(くんじ)を受(う)ける為(ため)に気象(きしょう)室(しつ)へ行(い)く。

    The captain will go to the meteorological office to get a weather briefing.

    Tatoeba #183342, translation #20466

  • 環境(かんきょう)汚染(おせん)は、異常(いじょう)な気象(きしょう)状況(じょうきょう)を引(ひ)き起(お)こしている。

    Environmental pollution is causing abnormal weather conditions.

    Tatoeba #183891, translation #21016

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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 きしょう

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.

  • 気象This word

    weather, climate

    きしょう flat (heiban)

  • 起床

    rising, getting out of bed

    きしょう flat (heiban)

Also opened on April 8

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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