First opened Wednesday, June 27, 2012
裸足
はだし
- 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).
barefoot
Hadashi was originally 肌 (hada, “skin”) plus 足 (ashi, “foot”).
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
彼は専門家はだしの優れた技術をもっている。
He has excellent techniques which would outdo a specialist.
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.
- “/fada aɕi/ → /fadaɕi/ → /hadaɕi/”
- “Originally a compound of 肌 (hada, “skin”) + 足 (ashi, “foot”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 裸足 (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
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Sound change
- The pronunciation shifted over the centuries.