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昨日 (きのう): Yesterday — Japanese vocabulary

昨日 is read きのう and means "Yesterday". JLPT N5 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

昨日

Reading
きのう · kinou
Translation
Yesterday
Level
JLPT N5
Pitch accent
きのうが

Example

昨日は雨でした。

きのうはあめでした。

It rained yesterday.

Kanji in this word

  • 昨 — yesterday, previous
  • 日 — day, sun, Japan

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