First opened Friday, August 11, 2023
傾斜
けいしゃ
- 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).
inclination, slope, dip
Taken apart
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In a sentence
屋根は鋭い角度で傾斜している。
The roof slopes sharply.
その土地は川に向かって緩やかに傾斜している。
The land slopes gently toward the river.
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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.