おんかい
Meanings
Noun
Music
1. scale
Kanji used
sound
floor (of a building)
Pitch accent
んかい
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Composed of
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
① 多数の層からなる建築物においてそれぞれの層もこと。② 階段のこと。きざはし。③ 官吏の序列。位階。
Used in vocabulary (13 in total)
Okinawan scale (hemitonic pentatonic scale: do, mi, fa, so, ti)
heptatonic scale; seven note scale; heptachord
anhemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing no semitones)
hemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing semitones)
ritsu scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale primarily used in gagaku: re, mi, so, la, ti)
miyako-bushi scale (characteristic Japanese hemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, fa, la, ti, do)
folk scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, so, la, ti, re)
Examples (1 in total)
I remember singing scales every day during music lessons.