Pitch accent homonyms
This collection contains a full list of the nearly 600 homonyms (words with the same reading) amongst the 10,000 most useful words in Japanese that are pronounced with different pitch accents. Pitch accents are very important in Japanese for correctly pronouncing a word, and words which are spelled the same way but pronounced differently can be very tricky.
For more information on pitch accents, see our comprehensive guide:
Word are organized in kana order - click 'あ' to see all words beginning with あ, い, う, え, お; click 'か' to see words beginning with か, き, く, け, こ etc.
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