First opened Tuesday, July 3, 2012
隔たる
へだたる
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
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).
to be distant
Hedataru is from Old Japanese, derived from へだつ (hedatsu), 部 (he, “separate”) plus 立つ (tatsu, “to set up”), with tatsu voiced to datsu by rendaku.
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.
Written with 隔
In a sentence
その村は海から何キロも隔たっている。
The village is many kilometers away from the seashore.
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 Old Japanese. Derived from へだつ (hedatsu), a compound of 部(へ) (he, “separate”) + 立(た)つ (tatsu, “to set up”), where the tatsu changes to datsu as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
Source: Wiktionary: 隔たる (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).