First opened Friday, April 18, 2008
お洒落
おしゃれ
- 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).
smartly dressed, fashion-conscious
Oshare is 御 (o-, honorific prefix) plus 洒落 (share).
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.
In a sentence
彼女はオシャレだ。
She's fashionable.
今日のあなたはとってもおしゃれ。
You're very stylish today.
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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.
- “御(お) (o-, honorific prefix) + 洒(しゃ)落(れ) (share)”
Source: Wiktionary: お洒落 (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
- Derivation
- A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.