First opened Friday, July 28, 2023
黒字
くろじ
- 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).
balance (figure) in the black
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.
In a sentence
今月は黒字である。
We are in the black this month.
あの出版社は黒字だ。
That publishing company is in the black.
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 混種語 Hybrid
- Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.