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First opened Thursday, October 17, 2024

多様

たよう

  • 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).

diversity, variety

JLPT N1Commonadjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)noun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 多様

In a sentence

  • 話題(わだい)は多様(たよう)多種(たしゅ)だった。

    We talked about a variety of topics.

    Tatoeba #77140, translation #326579

  • 我々(われわれ)の保険(ほけん)の範囲(はんい)は多様(たよう)な損害(そんがい)に及(およ)びます。

    Our insurance policy covers various kinds of damages.

    Tatoeba #186206, translation #23340

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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.

Related in the dictionary

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Opposite
  • 一様いちようuniform, similar, equal

Also opened on October 17

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