慣用音

Japanese

Kanji in this term
慣	用	音
かん Grade: 5	よう Grade: 2	おん Grade: 1
kan’on		goon

Examples
お茶(ちゃ) (o-cha): tea 輸(ゆ)出(しゅつ) (yushutsu): export 深(しん)圳(せん) (shinsen): Shenzhen

Etymology

/kwaɴ.jouoɴ/ → /kwaɴ.joːoɴ/ → /kaɴ.joːoɴ/

Compound of 慣用 (kan'yō, “customary or common use”) +‎ 音 (on, “sound”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かんよ​ーおん [kàn'yóꜜòòǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [kã̠ɰ̃jo̞ːõ̞ɴ]

Noun

慣(かん)用(よう)音(おん) • (kan'yōon) ^{←くわんようおん (kwan'youon)?}

1. a normalized kanji reading that falls outside of the conventional categories (呉音 (gōon), 漢音 (kan'on), 唐音 (tō'on)), not showing the expected correspondences to the "correct" Chinese pronunciation recorded in rime dictionaries

Synonyms

• 慣用読(かんようよ)み (kan'yōyomi)

See also

• 慣用語(かんようご) (kan'yōgo)