First opened Saturday, May 10, 2025
社交
しゃこう
- 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).
social life
Taken apart
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In a sentence
六月はロンドンでは社交の季節だ。
June is a social season in London.
自分の社交クラブを偶然訪れたとき彼は昔の友達に偶然に会った。
He came upon an old friend when he visited his club.
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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.