First opened Saturday, October 25, 2025
保管
ほかん
- 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).
custody, safekeeping, storage
Taken apart
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In a sentence
貴重品は銀行に保管してある。
The valuables are in the bank's safekeeping.
領収書は必ず保管してください。
Make sure you save the receipt.
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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.