First opened Wednesday, May 14, 2025
斜面
しゃめん
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
- 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).
slope, slanting surface, bevel
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼は険しい斜面をじっと見た。
He stared at the steep slope.
岩は丘の斜面を転がり落ちた。
The rock rolled down the hillside.
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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.