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First opened Saturday, June 20, 2026

夜更し

よふかし

  • middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
  • middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3

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).

staying up late, keeping late hours

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suruintransitive verb

Taken apart

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Written with 夜更

In a sentence

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What Wiktionary says

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Also opened on June 20

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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