First opened Sunday, July 26, 2009
送り仮名
おくりがな
- flat (heiban)
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).
part of word written in kana
Okurigana are the kana “sent along afterward” — and the word is first attested in 1477.
Taken apart
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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.
- “Compound of 送(おく)り (okuri, “sending”, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 送(おく)る (okuru, “to send”), from the sense of sending something afterward or adding something on the end) + 仮名(かな) (kana, “kana”). The kana changes to gana as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
- “First attested in 1477.”
Source: Wiktionary: 送り仮名 (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
- 混種語 Hybrid
- Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).