鼻濁音

Japanese

Kanji in this term
鼻	濁	音
び Grade: 3	だく Grade: S	おん Grade: 1
goon

Etymology

鼻 (bi, “nose, nasal”) +‎ 濁音 (dakuon, “voiced sound”), i.e. a nasalised voiced consonant

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) びだ​くおん [bìdáꜜkùòǹ] (Nakadaka – [2])
• (Tokyo) びだく​おん [bìdákúꜜòǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [bʲida̠kɯ̟ᵝõ̞ɴ]

Noun

鼻(び)濁(だく)音(おん) • (bidakuon) 

1. (linguistics) The allophonic variation of [ŋ] for /ɡ/ in the Japanese language

See also

• The characters used to represent [ŋ] allophonically:
  • か゚, カ゚ (nga); き゚, キ゚ (ngi); く゚, ク゚ (ngu); け゚, ケ゚ (nge); こ゚, コ゚ (ngo);