中高型
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Japanese
| 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
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. The kata changes to gata as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
Noun
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
- 平板型 (heiban-gata)
- 頭高型 (atamadakagata)
- 尾高型 (odakagata)
References
- ^ “中高型”, in デジタル大辞泉 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months