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First opened Thursday, July 16, 2026

良好

りょうこう

  • 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).

favorable, satisfactory

JLPT N1Commonadjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)noun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 良好

In a sentence

  • 品物(しなもの)は良好(りょうこう)な状態(じょうたい)で到着(とうちゃく)した。

    The goods arrived in good condition.

    Tatoeba #85220, translation #318493

  • それに比(くら)べ最近(さいきん)彼女(かのじょ)のお天気(てんき)は良好(りょうこう)。

    In comparison to which she's been in a really good mood recently.

    Tatoeba #76607, translation #327113

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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.

Also opened on July 16

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