Japanese/Pitch Accent/Pitch accent usage overview.md
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# Introduction
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Please consider the information from footnotes as optional, as they're not needed to understand the article. They contain either comments on decisions I made, or trivia for advance Japanese speakers.
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| Word | Reading | Moras | Mora count | Explanation |
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-| 先生 | せんせい | <span class="nowrap">せ・ん・せ・い</span> | 4 | **ん** is always a separate mora |
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+| 先生 | <span style="white-space:nowrap">せんせい</span> | <span style="white-space:nowrap">せ・ん・せ・い</span> | 4 | **ん** is always a separate mora |
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| 優しい | やさしい | や・さ・し・い | 4 | **い** is its own mora even though it makes **し** long |
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| 合唱 | がっしょう | が・っ・しょ・う | 4 | **っ** is always a separate mora; **しょ** is one mora because **ょ** only changes the vowel from **i** to **o** |
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| です | です | で・す | 2 | **す** is its own mora even if pronounced with voiceless **u** |