First opened Friday, June 19, 2026
呼び止める
よびとめる
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 4
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).
to flag down
Taken apart
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In a sentence
その旅人は兵士に呼び止められて立ち止まった。
The traveler stopped at the soldier's challenge.
警察官が私を呼び止めた時、時速１２０キロで走っていた。
I was going 120 kilometers an hour when the police stopped me.
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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.