First opened Monday, February 4, 2013
峰
みね
- tail-high (odaka): falls after mora 2
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).
peak, ridge
Mine is 御 (mi, honorific prefix) plus 峰 (ne, “peak”), in reference to the 神 (kami, “god or spirit”) at the top of a mountain.
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 峰
In a sentence
その峰は雲の上にそびえている。
The peak rises above the clouds.
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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.
- “From 御(み) (mi, honorific prefix) + 峰(ね) (ne, “peak”), in reference to the 神 (kami, “god or spirit”) at the top of a mountain. Now the standard spelling for a peak.”
- “Compare 道 (michi, “road”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 峰 (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).
Other readings of 峰 on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not みね. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
お
- “/wo/ → /o/”
- “From Old Japanese. Attested in the Man'yōshū.”
ね
- “From Old Japanese. Used mainly in compounds.”
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.
- Derivation
- A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.