First opened Saturday, August 24, 2024

対抗

たいこう

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).

opposition, antagonism

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suruintransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

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Written with 対抗

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私(わたし)は彼(かれ)に対抗(たいこう)して入札(にゅうさつ)した。
I bid against him.
Tatoeba #154090, translation #260453
彼(かれ)は常(つね)に強者(きょうしゃ)に対抗(たいこう)して弱者(じゃくしゃ)を味方(みかた)にした。
He was always on the side of the weak against the strong.
Tatoeba #103970, translation #299722

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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.

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Also opened on August 24