See also: 連聲 and 连声

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Kanji in this term
れん
Grade: 4
しょう > じょう
Grade: 2
on’yomi goon
Alternative spelling
連聲 (kyūjitai)

Etymology edit

Compound of (ren, connect) and (shō, voice). The shō changes to as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(れん)(じょう) (renjōれんじやう (renzyau)?

  1. (linguistics) a morphological change of an initial syllable of the second kanji under the influence of the historical coda of the first kanji in a word, such as 天皇, whose pronunciation is not *ten’ō but tennō.

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References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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