First opened Monday, August 18, 2025
振り出し
ふりだし
- 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).
outset, starting point, drawing or issuing (draft)
Taken apart
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In a sentence
振り出しに戻ってしまった。
We were back to square one.
振り出しに戻ってその授業をまた取らなければならない。
I will be back to square one and have to take the classes over.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.