中高型
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 中 | 高 | 型 |
| なか Grade: 1 |
たか > だか Grade: 2 |
かた > がた Grade: 5 |
| kun’yomi | ||
Etymology[edit]
Compound of 中高 (nakadaka, “middle high”) + 型 (kata, “form”), in reference to one of the middle morae of the word having the accent, followed by the downstep.[1] The kata changes to gata as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
中高型 • (nakadakagata)
- a pitch accent pattern in Japanese where the first mora is low pitch, then the pitch is high until the accented mora, followed by an immediate downstep with the remaining syllables having low pitch
- Examples:
- 志す (kokorozasu, “to attempt, to try”)
- 寒天 (kanten, “agar agar jelly”)
- コンサルタント (konsarutanto, “consultant”)
- Examples:
See also[edit]
- 平板型 (heiban-gata)
- 頭高型 (atamadakagata)
- 尾高型 (odakagata)
References[edit]
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 中 read as なか
- Japanese terms spelled with 高 read as たか
- Japanese terms spelled with 型 read as かた
- Japanese terms with rendaku
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with three Han script characters