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First opened Friday, July 26, 2024

側面

そくめん

  • flat (heiban)
  • middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3

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).

side, sidelight, lateral

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 側面

In a sentence

  • さらにまた、その話(はなし)にはもうひとつの側面(そくめん)がある。

    Again, there is another side to the story.

    Tatoeba #216684, translation #53990

  • 宗教(しゅうきょう)的(てき)側面(そくめん)では、その決定(けってい)は信者(しんじゃ)たちに深刻(しんこく)な分裂(ぶんれつ)をもたらした。

    On the religious side, the decision caused serious dissension among followers.

    Tatoeba #148246, translation #266313

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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.

Also opened on July 26

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