First opened Tuesday, June 11, 2024
繊維
せんい
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
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).
fiber, fiber, textile
Taken apart
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In a sentence
繊維産業をとりまく状況は変化した。
Circumstances surrounding the textile industry have changed.
繊維ニュースは繊維産業関係者に愛読者が多い。
Textile News has a large following among those working in the textile industry.
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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.