First opened Tuesday, May 14, 2024
盛大
せいだい
- 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).
grand, prosperous, magnificent
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼を空港で盛大に見送った。
We gave him a royal send-off at the airport.
結婚式の後で盛大な披露宴が催された。
There was a big reception after the wedding.
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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.