First opened Saturday, June 8, 2024
絶版
ぜっぱん
- 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).
out of print
Taken apart
We don't have the data for this section. Wiktionary has no Etymology section for this reading, and a split made without one would be a guess.
In a sentence
私はその本を１冊買いたいが、その本は絶版になっている。
I want to buy a copy of the book, but it is out of print.
この本はかつてはベストセラーだったが、今は絶版になっている。
This book, which was once a best seller, is now out of print.
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What Wiktionary says
We don't have the data for this section. The pinned Wiktionary dump has no Etymology section for this reading, so nothing is said about where the word comes from.