拗音

Chinese

		stubborn; contrary; bend stubborn; contrary; bend; break in two	sound; noise; news
simp. and trad. (拗音)		拗	音

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 拗音(ようおん) (yōon, “the sound of a mora”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ǎoyīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄠˇ ㄧㄣ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ǎoyīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄠˇ ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ǎoyin
    • Wade–Giles: ao³-yin¹
    • Yale: ǎu-yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: aoin
    • Palladius: аоинь (aoinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ in⁵⁵/

Noun

拗音

1. the sound of a Japanese mora involving a consonant, semi-vowel, and vowel, such as きゃ (kya) or the obsolete クヮ (kwa) (Classifier: 個／个)

Related terms

• 長音／长音 (chángyīn)
• 撥音／拨音
• 促音 (cùyīn)
• 母音 (mǔyīn)
• 子音 (zǐyīn)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
拗	音
よう Hyōgaiji	おん Grade: 1
goon

Etymology

拗 (“crooked”) +‎ 音 (“sound”)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) よ​ーおん [yóꜜòòǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [jo̞ːõ̞ɴ]

Noun

拗(よう)音(おん) • (yōon) ^{←えうおん (euon)?}

1. (Japanese orthography and phonology) in 和語 (wago, “native words”) and 漢語 (kango, “Classical Chinese words”), a mora that is spelt with:
   1. one of the full-sized kana, き (ki), ぎ (gi), し (shi), じ (ji), ち (chi), ぢ (ji), に (ni), ひ (hi), び (bi), ぴ (pi), み (mi) and り (ri), followed by one the small kana, ゃ, ゅ and ょ, to represent the palatalization of the mora
   2. one of the full-sized kana, く (ku) and ぐ (gu), followed by the small kana ゎ, to represent the historical labialization of the mora

   Antonym: 直音

Descendants

• → Chinese: 拗音 (ǎoyīn)