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弁論

べんろん

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).

discussion, debate, argument

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verbnouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'漢語 · Sino-Japanese

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Written with 弁論

In a sentence

彼(かれ)はテニスと弁論(べんろん)の代表(だいひょう)チームの一員(いちいん)である。
He is on the varsity in tennis and in debating.
Tatoeba #111816, translation #291862
その学生(がくせい)は、自分(じぶん)の弁論(べんろん)に対(たい)して審査(しんさ)員(いん)が批判(ひはん)的(てき)に述(の)べたことをひどく気(き)にした。
The student took to heart the judge's critical comments on his speech.
Tatoeba #211641, translation #48918

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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.

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