あたまだかがた

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of あたまだかがた – see the following entry.

【頭高型】 [noun] a pitch accent pattern in Japanese where the first mora is high, followed by an immediate downstep: the first syllable has high pitch and all subsequent syllables have low pitch

(This term, あたまだかがた, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)