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庶民
しょみん
- 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).
masses, common people
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
庶民のなりわいは、米をつくることだった。
The ordinary people had their livelihood in farming rice.
「どこの迷信よ、それ」「庶民の知恵を言ってくれ」
"Where's that superstition from?" "Call it folk wisdom."
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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.