First opened Friday, May 24, 2024
制約
せいやく
- 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).
limitation, constraints
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼はこの新しい法律によって自由が制約を受けると感じている。
He feels this new law will restrict his freedom.
合衆国には小火器の販売に関する法律上の制約はほとんどない。
There are few legal constraints on the sale of firearms in the U.S.
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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.