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First opened Friday, May 12, 2023

究極

きゅうきょく

  • 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).

ultimate, final, eventual

JLPT N1Commonnouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'noun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suruintransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 究極

In a sentence

  • 教育(きょういく)の究極(きゅうきょく)の目標(もくひょう)とは何(なに)だろうか。

    What is the ultimate purpose of education?

    Tatoeba #180350, translation #19127

  • 人類(じんるい)の究極(きゅうきょく)的(てき)運命(うんめい)はどうなるであろうか。

    What is man's ultimate destiny?

    Tatoeba #143920, translation #270646

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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 opened on May 12

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