First opened Saturday, November 25, 2023
甘口
あまくち
- 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).
sweet flavor
Taken apart
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In a sentence
そんな甘口には乗らないよ。
That sort of flattery will get you nowhere.
「ドイツワインは甘口が多く料理に合わない」というイメージが広まっている。
The impression that many German wines are sweet, and don't go well with food, is widespread.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.