First opened Friday, September 27, 2024
立ち寄る
たちよる
- 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).
to stop by, to drop in for a short visit
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼は本屋に立ち寄った。
He dropped in at the bookstore.
船は横浜に立ち寄った。
The ship touched at Yokohama.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.