First opened Thursday, January 18, 2024
上位
じょうい
- 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).
superior, higher order
Taken apart
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In a sentence
類人猿は知的には犬より上位である。
Apes rank above dogs in intelligence.
上位２社で市場の５０％を上回るシェアを占めている。
Between them, the two largest companies account for a share of more than 50% of the market.
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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.