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カルテ
カルテ
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
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).
clinical records (GER: Karte)
カルテ is borrowed from German Karte, and is a doublet of カルタ (karuta) and カード (kādo).
Taken apart
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In a sentence
このカルテを持って３階のレントゲン室へ行ってください。
Please take this chart to the X-ray Room on the third floor.
たいていの病院ではカルテはアルファベット順に保管されている。
The clinical records in most hospitals are kept in alphabetical order.
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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.
- “Borrowed from German Karte.”
- “Doublet of カルタ (karuta, “traditional Japanese playing cards”) and カード (kādo, “card”).”
Source: Wiktionary: カルテ (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
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.