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#2
Common
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. 1
    English · JMdict
    indicates sentence topic
    pronounced わ in modern Japanese
    That dog has a short tail.
  2. 2
    English · JMdict
    indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
    Feed a cold and starve a fever.
  3. 3
    English · JMdict
    adds emphasis
    My mother never gets up early.
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Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. 1
    English · JMdict
    counter for waves (of a repeated occurrence)
  2. 2
    English · JMnedict
    Ha
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Meaning
  1. 1
    English · JMdict
    large fan-shaped object held by an attendant and used to conceal the face of a noble, etc.
    Rather than light-hearted and cheerful men, I'm attracted to sober men with a bit of a dark side to them.
  2. 2
    English · KANJIDIC2
    hold aloft
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#437
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. 1
    English · JMdict
    yes;indeed;well
    What! This T-shirt is 3,000 yen? This is a rip-off!
  2. 2
    English · JMdict
    ha!
  3. 3
    English · JMdict
    what?;huh?
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#2,886
Common N5
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. 1
    English · JMdict
    tooth;teeth
    The baby is cutting his teeth.
  2. 2
    English · JMdict
    tooth (of a comb, saw, etc.);cog
  3. 3
    English · JMdict
    support (of a geta)
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#2,936
Common N1
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. 1
    English · JMdict
    group;faction;clique;coterie
    I am a cat person.
  2. 2
    English · JMdict
    (political) faction;wing;camp
    He once belonged to the Fukuda faction.
  3. 3
    English · JMdict
    school (of thought, painting, etc.)
    The sculptor belongs to the Renaissance school.
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#3,885
Common N1
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. 1
    English · JMdict
    edge (of a knife or sword);blade
    My knife has such a fine edge.
  2. 2
    English · JMdict
    prong (of an electrical plug)
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#4,882
Common N3
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. 1
    English · JMdict
    feather;plume;down
    Fine feathers make fine birds.
  2. 2
    English · JMdict
    wing
    I found a bird whose wing was severely damaged.
  3. 3
    English · JMdict
    blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.)
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#18,501
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. 1
    English · JMdict
    middle section of a song (in gagaku or noh)
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#30,837
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. 1
    English · JMdict
    supremacy (over a nation);hegemony;domination;leadership
  2. 2
    English · JMdict
    championship;victory
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#89,701
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. 1
    English · KANJIDIC2
    school of fish;fish's mouth moving;exhaling sound
  2. 2
    English · JMnedict
    Ha
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Pitch accent
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  1. 1
    English · JMnedict
    Ha
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Pitch accent
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  1. 1
    English · JMnedict
    Ha
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Pitch accent
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    English · JMnedict
    Ha
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Pitch accent
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    English · JMnedict
    Ha
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#8,157
Common N3
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. 1
    English · JMdict
    ash;ashes
    Everything was burnt to ashes.
  2. 2
    English · KANJIDIC2
    ashes;puckery juice;cremate
  3. 3
    English · JMnedict
    Hai
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#6,793
Common N1
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. 1
    English · JMdict
    lung
    Smoking has affected his lungs.
  2. 2
    English · KANJIDIC2
    lungs
  3. 3
    English · Wikipedia
    (For other uses, see Lung (disambiguation). More
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Hiragana

ひらがな

The rounded, flowing kana. Hiragana writes native Japanese words, grammar endings, and anything without (or alongside) kanji — it's the first script you learn. Each character stands for one syllable.

Example

ねこ — cat