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First opened Monday, October 16, 2006

賭ける

かける

  • middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2

How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).

to bet, to risk, to gamble

JLPT N3CommonIchidan verbtransitive verb和語 · Native Japanese

Kakeru, “to bet”, is derived from 掛ける (kakeru, “to hang; to manipulate; to spend, invest”).

Taken apart

No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.

Written with 賭

In a sentence

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What Wiktionary says

Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.

  • “Derived from 掛(か)ける (kakeru, “to hang; to manipulate; to spend, invest”).”

Source: Wiktionary: 賭ける (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

和語 Native Japanese
Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.

Also read かける

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • 賭けるThis word

    to bet, to risk, to gamble

    かけ↓る middle-high (nakadaka)

  • 掛ける

    to put on (e.g., glasses); to hang (e.g., on a wall)

    かけ↓る middle-high (nakadaka)

  • かける

    to dial/call (e.g., phone); to sit down

    No pitch accent shown

  • 欠ける

    to be lacking

    かける flat (heiban)

  • 駆ける

    to run

    かけ↓る middle-high (nakadaka)

Also opened on October 16

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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