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First opened Monday, January 6, 2025

突っ張る

つっぱる

  • 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 support, to become stiff; to thrust (ones opponent), to stick to (ones opinion), to insist on

JLPT N1CommonGodan verb with 'ru' endingtransitive verb

Taken apart

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Written with 突張

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Also opened on January 6

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