Multilayer ceramic capacitor

A multilayer ceramic capacitor, comprising:

• (1) a capacitor body having a first face and a second face that are facing each other in a length direction, a third face and a fourth face that are facing each other in a width direction, and a fifth face and a sixth face that are facing each other in a height direction, as well as a built-in capacitive part constituted by multiple first internal electrode layers and multiple second internal electrode layers stacked alternately with dielectric layers in between;
• (2) a first external electrode having a first part along the first face, and a second part along the fifth face, of the capacitor body, where an end of each of the multiple first internal electrode layers is connected to the first part;
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• (3) a second external electrode having a first part along the second face, and a second part along the fifth face, of the capacitor body, where an end of each of the multiple second internal electrode layers is connected to the first part;
• wherein the sixth face of the capacitor body has, over an entire width direction and at a position adjacent to the first face, a first tapering face that decreases a height-direction dimension of the first face, and also has, over an entire width direction and at a position adjacent to the second face, a second tapering face that decreases a height-direction dimension of the second face;
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• wherein a height-direction dimension of the first tapering face on the sixth face is constituted in a manner accommodating an error in an end height of the first part of the first external electrode, while a height-direction dimension of the second tapering face on the sixth face is constituted in a manner accommodating an error in an end height of the first part of the second external electrode.