First opened Tuesday, September 29, 2026
一筋
ひとすじ
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
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).
a line, earnestly, blindly, straightforwardly
Taken apart
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In a sentence
涙が一筋頬を流れた。
A tear ran down her cheek.
彼の前途には一筋の希望の光もなかった。
There was not a ray of hope before him.
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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.