How to write pitch accent notation in Anki?

5 comments

1. Maybe get familiar with the 0/1/2/… notation for the pitch accent. When it becomes a conditional reflex you’ll be able to produce the correct sound as soon as you see the number, and in your head the number is perfectly interchangeable with the visual lines.

   *disclaimer: I don’t use Anki

2. Personally i do it like this: high pitch syllables have accents (áéíóú), low pitch syllables dont have anything on top of them, and to let myself know if the pitch goes up/stays up/drops i use ┅━⏋⏌

   Examples:

   >畑 – hatáké ┅━
   >
   >蚊 – ka ⏌
   >
   >胸 – muné ⏋

   Seemed the more intuitive to me so thats what i stuck with.

3. What I do is mark the downstep with `＼` (you can produce this by converting `しゃせん` in Microsoft IME). If there’s no downstep, mark it with `￣` (convert `～`). This is the notation used in the newest edition of NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典.

4. This is totally non-standard, but I write the accented mora (i.e., the one that precedes the downstep if there is one) in bold.

5. Just use a down arrow or backslash to indicate where the down step is