First opened Sunday, May 19, 2024
正当
せいとう
- 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).
just, due, proper
Taken apart
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In a sentence
私はよい音楽を正当に評価する。
I appreciate good music.
彼は時々正当な理由もなしに仕事を休む。
He sometimes is absent from work without good cause.
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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.