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短歌 (たんか): 31-syllable Japanese poem — Japanese vocabulary

短歌 is read たんか and means "31-syllable Japanese poem". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

短歌

Reading
たんか · tanka
Translation
31-syllable Japanese poem
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
たんかが

Kanji in this word

  • 短 — short
  • 歌 — song, sing

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