然然

Japanese edit

Etymology edit

The shika changes to jika as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Kanji in this term
然	然
しか Grade: 4	しか > じか Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Alternative spellings
云々然々

Pronunciation edit

(Tokyo) しかじか [shìkáꜜjìkà] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɕika̠ʑika̠]

Adverb edit

然(しか)然(じか) • (shikajika)

and so on

References edit

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

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