First opened Monday, July 1, 2019
腰掛け
こしかけ
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
- tail-high (odaka): falls after mora 4
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).
seat, bench
Taken apart
We don't have the data for this section. Wiktionary has no Etymology section for this reading, and a split made without one would be a guess.
In a sentence
君が座っている腰掛けのペンキはまだ塗り立てだよ。
The paint on the seat on which you are sitting is still wet.
腰掛けのつもりだったのに、気がついたら私もこの会社で古株になってしまった。
I only figured on staying with this company a little while when I started, but before I knew it I'd become an old timer here.
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
We don't have the data for this section. The pinned Wiktionary dump has no Etymology section for this reading, so nothing is said about where the word comes from.
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.