IllDepence/SVG_pitch

Japanese pitch accent annotations in simple SVG.

Pitch accent illustrations in SVG.

Features

• clean and simple SVG
• high/low pitch indicators aligned with kana
• each accent position corresponds to one mora, 拗音 (e.g. きゃ) are automatically merged
• web interface with pitch accent lookup based on Wadoku data

Web interface

• pitch.html: manually draw
• pitch_auto.html: automatic annotation

Python

• $ python3 draw_pitch.py <characters> <pitch_pattern>
  • where pitch pattern is made up of 012 or l and h
• example

  $ python3 draw_pitch.py はな 010 > 花.html
  $ firefox 花.html
  

Notes

• uses the font Noto Sans JP (not embedded in SVGs)
• accent notation style similar to 大辞林 アクセント解説
• accdb.js was generated from a Wadoku XML dump
  (see anki_add_pitch/wadoku_parse.py and anki_add_pitch.py for more details)