First opened Tuesday, October 22, 2024

単一

たんいつ

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).

single, simple, sole

JLPT N1Commonadjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'noun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 単一

In a sentence

ねじ、てこ、くさび、滑車(かっしゃ)などは単一(たんいつ)機械(きかい)と呼(よ)ばれる。
The screw, the lever, the wedge, the pulley, etc. are called simple machines.
Tatoeba #198614, translation #35807
体制(たいせい)に従(したが)おうとする意識(いしき)は、この単一(たんいつ)民族(みんぞく)社会(しゃかい)の本質(ほんしつ)的(てき)な要素(ようそ)である。
Conformity is an essential element of our homogeneous community.
Tatoeba #137971, translation #275264

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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.

Taken apart

In a sentence

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