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First opened Saturday, June 3, 2023

業者

ぎょうしゃ

  • head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1

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).

trader, merchant

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

We don't have the data for this section. Wiktionary has no Etymology section for this reading, and a split made without one would be a guess.

Written with 業者

In a sentence

  • 業者(ぎょうしゃ)が造花(ぞうか)の花束(はなたば)を届(とど)けて飾(かざ)っている。

    A delivery man is dropping off an arrangement of artificial flowers.

    Tatoeba #180013, translation #18873

  • あぶく銭(ぜに)を稼(かせ)ごうとする開発(かいはつ)業者(ぎょうしゃ)たちよ。

    They're some developers who aim to make a fast buck!

    Tatoeba #230397, translation #67764

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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 June 3

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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