First opened Thursday, March 14, 2024
新人
しんじん
- 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).
new face, newcomer
Taken apart
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In a sentence
新人は我々の期待に及ばなかった。
The newcomer fell short of our expectation.
彼女はうちの部署に来た久々の大型新人です。
This is the first time in a while that someone we had such high hopes for came to our department.
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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.