First opened Monday, October 13, 2025
放置
ほうち
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
- 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).
leave as is, leave alone, neglect
Taken apart
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In a sentence
少女たちは縛り上げられて地下室に放置された。
The girls were trussed up and left in a cellar.
雨の中に放置しておくと自転車はさびるでしょう。
A bicycle will rust if you leave it in the rain.
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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.