First opened Thursday, August 22, 2024
対決
たいけつ
- 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).
confrontation, showdown
Taken apart
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In a sentence
経営側と労働者側との対決があるでしょう。
There is going to be a show-down between management and labor.
首相が政敵の挑戦と真っ向から対決しました。
The prime minister directly confronted the challenges of his political opponents.
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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.