First opened Tuesday, November 13, 2012
スプリング
スプリング
- flat (heiban)
The two sources behind the pitch accent disagree about this word, so an accent is shown only where they give the same one.
- Kanjium: falls after mora 3 (middle-high (nakadaka)); flat (heiban)
- UniDic: 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).
spring
スプリング is borrowed from English spring, and also clips スプリングコート (supuringu kōto, “a topcoat”).
Taken apart
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In a sentence
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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 English spring.”
- “Clipping of スプリングコート (supuringu kōto, “a topcoat”), wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from spring + coat.”
Source: Wiktionary: スプリング (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.
- Made in Japan
- Coined in Japan from foreign material (wasei-kango, wasei-eigo), not borrowed whole.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.
- Clipping
- A longer word or phrase shortened in everyday use.