First opened Wednesday, September 4, 2024
滞納
たいのう
- 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).
non-payment, default
Taken apart
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In a sentence
料金滞納で電話を止められた。
My telephone service was cut off because of unpaid bills.
数日ならまだしも１０日も滞納している。
A few days would have been excusable, but you are in arrears for 10 days.
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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.