First opened Thursday, February 20, 2025
手本
てほん
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
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).
model, pattern
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼を手本にしなさい。
Follow his example.
私は母を手本にした。
I followed my mother's example.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 混種語 Hybrid
- Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.