First opened Monday, May 1, 2023
気まぐれ
きまぐれ
- flat (heiban)
- tail-high (odaka): falls after mora 4
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).
whim, caprice, uneven temper
Taken apart
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Written with 気
In a sentence
気まぐれな天気だな。
The weather is fickle.
父は寛大だったので、私の気まぐれもすべて満たしてくれた。
Father was generous enough to indulge my every whim.
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What Wiktionary says
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