First opened Friday, June 2, 2023
凶作
きょうさく
- 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).
bad harvest, poor crop
Taken apart
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In a sentence
米作は今年は凶作だ。
The rice crop is poor this year.
昨年は異常な冷夏で、稲作は１０年ぶりの凶作だった。
It was exceptionally cold last summer, and the rice crop was the worst in 10 years.
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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.