First opened Wednesday, October 23, 2024

短歌

たんか

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).

31-syllable Japanese poem

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 短歌

In a sentence

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What Wiktionary says

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What the labels mean

漢語 Sino-Japanese: Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.

Related in the dictionary

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See also: 長歌ちょうか

Also read たんか

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

短歌This word
31-syllable Japanese poem
た↓んか head-high (atamadaka)
担架
stretcher, litter
た↓んか head-high (atamadaka)

Also opened on October 23

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.