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First opened Thursday, July 24, 2025

不審

ふしん

  • 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).

suspicious, doubt, infidelity

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 不審

In a sentence

  • 警官(けいかん)が不審(ふしん)な歩行(ほこう)者(しゃ)をじっと見(み)つめていた。

    A policeman was gazing at a suspicious pedestrian.

    Tatoeba #176382, translation #238082

  • 不審(ふしん)な人(ひと)をみかけたら警察(けいさつ)に知(し)らせてください。

    If you see a suspicious person, please inform the police.

    Tatoeba #85074, translation #318639

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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.

Also read ふしん

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • 不審This word

    suspicious, doubt, infidelity

    ふしん flat (heiban)

  • 不振

    dullness, slump, stagnation

    ふしん flat (heiban)

Also opened on July 24

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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