First opened Saturday, June 28, 2025
頻繁
ひんぱん
- 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).
frequency
Taken apart
We don't have the data for this section. Wiktionary has no Etymology section for this reading, and a split made without one would be a guess.
In a sentence
日本は頻繁に地震に襲われる。
Earthquakes frequently hit Japan.
近頃は地震が頻繁で不気味だ。
The recent frequency of earthquakes makes us nervous.
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What Wiktionary says
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