First opened Sunday, March 15, 2026
メロディー
メロディー
- 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).
melody
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼はメロディーを口笛で吹き始めた。
He began to whistle a tune.
私はあの歌のメロディーが思い出せない。
I can't remember the tune of that song.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.