First opened Sunday, May 7, 2023
逆転
ぎゃくてん
- 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).
(sudden) change, reversal, turn-around
Taken apart
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In a sentence
形勢は逆転した。
Now the shoe is on the other foot.
松井、起死回生の逆転満塁サヨナラホームラン!
Matsui pulled the Giants back from the brink with a grand slam that gave them a come-from-behind victory.
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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.