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First opened Saturday, May 27, 2023

共感

きょうかん

  • 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).

sympathy, response

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suruintransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 共感

In a sentence

  • あなたの考(かんが)え方(かた)には共感(きょうかん)できます。

    I really agree with what you're saying.

    Tatoeba #233297, translation #70668

  • 自分(じぶん)が生(い)きている世界(せかい)との共感(きょうかん)がなければ、作家(さっか)であることは無益(むえき)である。

    It is no use being a writer if one is not in sympathy with the world in which one is living.

    Tatoeba #149993, translation #264564

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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 27

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