First opened Monday, June 22, 2026
読み上げる
よみあげる
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 4
- 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).
to read out loud (and clearly), to call a roll
Taken apart
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In a sentence
私がこの本を読み上げるのに約１時間かかった。
It took me about an hour to read this book through.
私は彼らに向かってそれを読み上げる以外に仕方がなかった。
I had no choice but to read it out to them.
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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.