First opened Saturday, July 28, 2007
市場
いちば
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
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).
market, bazaar
Ichiba is 市 (ichi, “market”) plus 場 (ba, “place”); compare English marketplace.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
母は毎日市場に買い物に行く。
My mother goes to the market every day to buy things.
私たちは市場で野菜と魚を買った。
We bought some vegetables and fish at the market.
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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.
- “市(いち) (ichi, “market”) + 場(ば) (ba, “place”). Compare English marketplace.”
Source: Wiktionary: 市場 (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).
Other readings of 市場 on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not いちば. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
しじょう
- “Sinicization of 市場(いちば) (ichiba). See 返事(へんじ) (henji) and 大根(だいこん) (daikon), which have similar etymologies.”
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.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.