First opened Saturday, September 12, 2009
火傷
やけど
- 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).
burn, scald
A burn is a “burning place”, and the to of “place” voices to do.
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
足にやけどをした。
I burnt myself on the leg.
私は指先を火傷した。
I burned my fingertip.
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
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 焼(や)け (yake, “burn, burning”, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 焼(や)ける (yakeru, “to be burnt”)) + 処(と) (to, “place”). The to changes to do as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
Source: Wiktionary: 火傷 (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
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).
- Ateji
- Kanji chosen for their sound or sense after the word existed.