約音

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
約	音
やく Grade: 4	おん Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation edit

(Tokyo) やくおん [yàkúóń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [ja̠kɯ̟ᵝõ̞ɴ]

Noun edit

約(やく)音(おん) • (yakuon)

(linguistics) syncope, contraction (phonetic phenomenon whereby neighbouring sounds are lost from the interior of a word)

Derived terms edit

約(やく) (yaku) (clipping)

References edit

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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