First opened Monday, April 15, 2024
ずばり
ずばり
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
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).
decisively, unreservedly, frankly
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼の言葉はズバリ急所を言い当てた。
His remark hit home.
君が捜していたズバリそのものを見つけました。
I found the very thing you had been looking for.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.