First opened Tuesday, January 22, 2008
豪華
ごうか
- 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).
luxurious, gorgeous, extravagance
Gōka is Middle Chinese 豪華, literally “grand + flowery”.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
豪華客船が港に入った。
A luxury liner arrived in the harbor.
何と豪華な家々でしょう。
What splendid houses they are!
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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.
- “From Middle Chinese 豪華 (MC haw hwae|xwae|hwaeH, literally “grand + flowery”). Compare modern Cantonese reading hou⁴ waa⁴.”
Source: Wiktionary: 豪華 (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
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.