仮名遣い

See also: 假名遣い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
かり > か
Grade: 5

Grade: 1
つか > づか
Grade: S

Alternative forms

  • 仮名遣

Etymology

Compound of  () () (kana, kana) +  (つか) (tsukai, use).

The tsukai changes to zukai as an instance of rendaku (連濁)

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
    • (Tokyo) なづかい [kànázúꜜkàì] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
    • IPA(key): [ka̠na̠zɨᵝka̠i]

Noun

仮名遣い (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 假名遣い, hiragana かなづかい, rōmaji kanazukai, historical hiragana かなづかひ)

  1. (linguistics) kana usage (orthography)
  2. (linguistics) how letters or characters are read or pronounced ("used")
    上代 (じょうだい)特殊 (とくしゅ) () () (づか)
    jōdai tokushu kanazukai
    special kana usage in Old Japanese
  3. a method of writing (or "using") letters or characters

Derived terms

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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