五十音
Chinese edit
fifty; 50 | sound; noise; news | ||
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simp. and trad. (五十音) |
五十 | 音 |
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
五十音
- The modern ordering of the Japanese syllabaries.
Derived terms edit
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | ||
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五 | 十 | 音 |
ご Grade: 1 |
じゅう Grade: 1 |
おん Grade: 1 |
goon |
Etymology edit
From 五十 (gojū, “fifty”) + 音 (on, “sound”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
五十音 • (gojūon) ←ごじふおん (gozifuon)?
- (phonology, orthography, grammar) all Japanese morae that can be spelled with 45 single modern kana and 2 historical kana (ゐ/ヰ and ゑ/ヱ) customarily without diacritical marks (゛ and ゜), excluding っ and ん, arranged in a 5x10 table (五十音図 (gojūonzu, literally “table of the fifty sounds”)), used for phonological and grammatical analysis
Derived terms edit
- 五十音仮名 (gojūongana)
- 五十音順 (gojūonjun)
See also edit
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