First opened Saturday, March 2, 2024
指令
しれい
- 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).
orders, instructions, directive
Taken apart
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In a sentence
消防隊は指令を受けてから５分以内で現場に来ていた。
The fire brigade was on the scene within five minutes of receiving the call.
戦勝国は敗戦国に講和条件を指令した。
The victorious country dictated the terms of peace to the defeated country.
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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.