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First opened Saturday, April 27, 2024

生育

せいいく

  • 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).

growth, development, breeding

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verbintransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 生育

In a sentence

  • 雨(あめ)の量(りょう)が作物(さくもつ)の生育(せいいく)に影響(えいきょう)するのですか。

    Does the amount of rain affect the growth of crops?

    Tatoeba #189563, translation #26716

  • 今年(ことし)のポマトの生育(せいいく)はおしなべて良好(りょうこう)です。

    On the whole, the pomato plants are growing well this year.

    Tatoeba #76134, translation #327584

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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.

Also read せいいく

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • 生育This word

    growth, development, breeding

    せいいく flat (heiban)

  • 成育

    growth, raising

    せいいく flat (heiban)

Also opened on April 27

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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