Japanese

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Kanji in this term
てん
Grade: 3

Grade: 6
おん
Grade: 1
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
轉呼音 (kyūjitai)

Noun

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(てん)()(おん) (tenkoon

  1. (linguistics) sound shift
  2. (linguistics) sound shifts from Old Japanese to Modern Japanese, especially those which are preserved in historical kana usage.

Usage notes

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In the second sense especially, this term is often translated into English as the truncated version tenko (転呼) and translated as "change of call," which is a more literal, although slightly misleading, interpretation of the characters ( ten "change/alteration of a word," ko "to call").