四つ仮名

Japanese

Kanji in this term
四	仮	名
よ Grade: 1	か > が Grade: 5	な Grade: 1

Etymology

四つ (yotsu, “four”) +‎ 仮名 (“kana”)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) よつがな [yòtsúgáná] (Heiban – [0])
IPA^(key): [jo̞t͡sɨᵝɡa̠na̠]

Noun

四つ仮名 (hiragana よつがな, rōmaji yotsugana)

(orthography) the four kana pairs of じ/ジ, ず/ズ, ぢ/ヂ and づ/ヅ, the latter two of which represent historical morae that are now pronounced identically to the former two in most major dialects

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