First opened Friday, May 17, 2024

製鉄

せいてつ

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).

iron manufacture

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suruintransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 製鉄

In a sentence

その製鉄(せいてつ)工場(こうじょう)を建(た)てるのは非常(ひじょう)に大変(たいへん)な事業(じぎょう)だった。
Building the steel factory was a great enterprise.
Tatoeba #208639, translation #45898

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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.

Taken apart

In a sentence

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Also opened on May 17