拗音

Chinese
 
stubborn; contrary; bend; break in two
 sound; noise; news
simp. and trad.
(拗音)		 拗 音

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 拗音 (ようおん) (yōon, “the sound of a mora”).

Pronunciation

Noun

拗音 (classifier 個／个 (gè))

  1. the sound of a Japanese mora involving a consonant, semi-vowel, and vowel, such as きゃ (kya) or the obsolete クヮ (kwa)

Japanese
Kanji in this term
拗 音
よう
Hyōgaiji		 おん
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

拗音 (hiragana ようおん, rōmaji yōon, historical hiragana えうおん)

  1. the sound of a mora involving a consonant, semi-vowel, and vowel, such as きゃ (kya) or the obsolete クヮ (kwa)

Descendants

References
  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

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