五十音

Chinese

		fifty; 50	sound; noise; news
simp. and trad. (五十音)		五十	音

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǔshíyīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˇ ㄕˊ ㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ng⁵ sap⁶ jam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wǔshíyīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˇ ㄕˊ ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǔshíhyin
    • Wade–Giles: wu³-shih²-yin¹
    • Yale: wǔ-shŕ-yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuushyrin
    • Palladius: ушиинь (ušiinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵ in⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ng⁵ sap⁶ jam¹
    • Yale: ńgh sahp yām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ng⁵ sap⁹ jam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ng⁵ seb⁶ yem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋ̍¹³ sɐp̚² jɐm⁵⁵/

Noun

五十音

1. The modern ordering of the Japanese syllabaries.

Derived terms

• 五十音圖／五十音图

Japanese

Kanji in this term
五	十	音
ご Grade: 1	じゅう Grade: 1	おん Grade: 1
goon

Etymology

From 五十 (gojū, “fifty”) +‎ 音 (on, “sound”).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Goon
• (Tokyo) ごじゅ​うおん [gòjúꜜùòǹ] (Nakadaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ɡo̞ʑɨᵝːõ̞ɴ]

Noun

五(ご)十(じゅう)音(おん) • (gojūon) ^{←ごじふおん (gozifuon)?}

1. (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

• 五(ご)十(じゅう)音(おん)仮(が)名(な) (gojūongana)
• 五(ご)十(じゅう)音(おん)順(じゅん) (gojūonjun)

See also

• 伊(い)呂(ろ)波(は) (iroha)