Accent

"Accent" in Japanese

なまり

namari

(distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

アクセント

akusento

(higher-pitched or stronger articulation)

アクセント

akusento

(orthography: mark to indicate stress)

アクセント

akusento

(distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

ダイアクリティカルマーク

daiakuritikaru māku

(orthography: any diacritical mark)

字上符

jijōfu

(orthography: any diacritical mark)

強勢

kyōsei

(higher-pitched or stronger articulation)

強調

kyōchō

(higher-pitched or stronger articulation)

強調

kyōchō

(prosody: stress on syllables of a verse)

強音

kyōon

(higher-pitched or stronger articulation)

強音

kyōon

(prosody: stress on syllables of a verse)

話し振り

hanashiburi

(distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

重き

omoki

(higher-pitched or stronger articulation)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.