きふくしき

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of きふくしき – see the following entry.
起伏式
[noun] (phonetics) The pitch accent pattern in Japanese where any syllable is accented; can be classified as either 頭高型 (​atamadaka-gata), 中高型 (​nakadaka-gata), or 尾高型 (​odaka-gata).
(This term, きふくしき (kifukushiki), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)