First opened Wednesday, September 10, 2025
兵器
へいき
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
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).
arms, weapons, ordinance
Taken apart
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In a sentence
日本は兵器にあまりお金を使うべきではない。
Japan should not spend much money on weapons.
核兵器を全面的に禁止して初めて、兵器競争を止めさせることができる。
Only by prohibiting nuclear weapons altogether can we stop the arms race.
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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.