First opened Wednesday, June 26, 2024
船舶
せんぱく
- 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).
ship
Taken apart
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In a sentence
懐中電灯は、船舶同士とか、街の通りを走っている自動車に向けて合図を伝える。
Flashing lights transmit messages between ships and to motorists along city streets.
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What Wiktionary says
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