First opened Wednesday, November 27, 2024
中腹
ちゅうふく
- 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).
mountain side, halfway up
Taken apart
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In a sentence
その丘の中腹に家が一軒あった。
There was a cottage on the side of the hill.
丘の中腹に建っている建物は私たちの学校です。
The building which stands on the hillside is our school.
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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.