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First opened Saturday, December 23, 2023

移行

いこう

  • 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).

switching over to

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verbintransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 移行

In a sentence

  • 農場(のうじょう)生活(せいかつ)から都市(とし)の生活(せいかつ)への移行(いこう)は困難(こんなん)なことが多(おお)い。

    The transition from farm life to city life is often difficult.

    Tatoeba #121694, translation #282311

  • 英国(えいこく)は、1971年(ねん)にその貨幣(かへい)制度(せいど)を10進(しん)法(ほう)に移行(いこう)させた。

    In 1971 the United Kingdom changed its currency to the decimal system.

    Tatoeba #189003, translation #26150

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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 read いこう

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • 移行This word

    switching over to

    いこう flat (heiban)

  • 意向

    intention, idea, inclination

    いこう flat (heiban)

  • 以降

    on and after, hereafter

    い↓こう head-high (atamadaka)

Also opened on December 23

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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