おんかい
Meanings
Noun
Music
1. scale
Pitch accent
んかい
Composed of
sound; noise; note; Chinese-derived character reading
storey; story; stairs; stage (in chronostratigraphy); counter for storeys and floors of a building
Used in vocabulary (13 in total)
chromatic scale
diatonic scale
minor scale
Okinawan scale (hemitonic pentatonic scale: do, mi, fa, so, ti)
pentatonic scale
whole-tone scale
heptatonic scale; seven note scale; heptachord
anhemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing no semitones)
hemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing semitones)
miyako-bushi scale (characteristic Japanese hemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, fa, la, ti, do)
folk scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, so, la, ti, re)
ritsu scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale primarily used in gagaku: re, mi, so, la, ti)
Examples (1 in total)
I remember singing scales every day during music lessons.