拗音

Japanese

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

Pronunciation

On’yomi: Goon
- (Tokyo) よーおん [yóꜜòòǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]^[2]
- IPA^(key): [jo̞ːõ̞ɴ]

Noun

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

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

References

↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Further reading

拗音 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja

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