First opened Wednesday, August 5, 2026
パトカー
パトカー
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
- middle-high (nakadaka): 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).
patrol car
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
パトカーが必要です。
I need a police car.
パトカーを見て彼は逃げた。
He ran away at the sight of a police car.
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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.