Korean edit

Etymology edit

Sino-Korean word from 頭音, from (head, first, beginning) + (sound)

Pronunciation edit

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?dueum
Revised Romanization (translit.)?dueum
McCune–Reischauer?tuŭm
Yale Romanization?twuum

Noun edit

두음 (dueum) (hanja 頭音)

  1. (linguistics) initial (sound)

Derived terms edit