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First opened Wednesday, April 26, 2023

規範

きはん

  • 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).

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

Taken apart

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Written with 規範

In a sentence

  • 倫理(りんり)学(がく)というのは、行動(こうどう)の規範(きはん)を意味(いみ)する。

    Ethics means the rules of conduct.

    Tatoeba #77794, translation #325924

  • それは私(わたし)たちの道徳的(どうとくてき)規範(きはん)には受(う)け入(い)れられない。

    It is not acceptable to our moral code.

    Tatoeba #205154, translation #42396

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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 opened on April 26

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