First opened Monday, September 19, 2011
共働き
ともばたらき
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
- 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).
dual income (husband and wife both working)
Tomobataraki is 共 (tomo-) plus 働き (hataraki), with hataraki voiced to bataraki by rendaku.
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Wiktionary's text doesn't split this word, so each part is one of its kanji (with the okurigana written after it), with the reading and the dictionary meaning KANJIDIC2 gives that character — a word doesn't always use every sense of its kanji.
In a sentence
「少しうちに寄っていかない？」「いいの？」「うち共働きで親は遅いの」
"Want to drop round my place?" "Can I?" "My parents come home late as they both work."
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 共(とも) (tomo-) + 働(はたら)き (hataraki, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 働(はたら)く (hataraku).). The hataraki changes to bataraki as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
Source: Wiktionary: 共働き (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
- 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.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).