頭高型

Japanese
Kanji in this term
頭 高 型
あたま
Grade: 2		 たか > だか
Grade: 2		 かた > がた
Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 頭 (atama, “head; start”) +‎ 高 (taka, “high”) +‎ 型 (kata, “form”), in reference to the first mora of the word (the "head") having the highest pitch.[1] The taka changes to daka as an instance of rendaku (連濁), and similarly the kata changes to gata as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) あたまだかがた [àtámádákágátá] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA(key): [a̠ta̠ma̠da̠ka̠ɡa̠ta̠]

Noun

頭(あたま)高(だか)型(がた) • (atamadakagata) 

  1. a pitch accent pattern in Japanese where the first mora is high, followed by an immediate downstep: the first syllable has high pitch and all subsequent syllables have low pitch
    Examples:

See also

References
  1. “頭高型”, in デジタル大辞泉 (Dejitaru Daijisen)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
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