や行

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
ぎょう
Grade: 2
goon
Alternative spellings
ヤ行
也行
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Etymology

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(ya) +‎ (row)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(ぎょう) (yagyōやぎゃう (yagyau)?

  1. (phonology, orthography, grammar) the eighth row of the 五十音図 (literally table of the fifty sounds), consisting of the five kana / (ya), / (i) (alternatively, 𛀆/𛄠 (yi)), / (yu), / (e) (alternatively, 𛀁/𛄡 (ye)) and / (yo), two of which are taken from the あ行 (a-row) to represent classical grammatical inflection in modern text
    Coordinate terms: あ行, か行, さ行, た行, な行, は行, ま行, ら行, わ行
    (ぎょう)(かみ)(いち)(だん)/(かみ)()(だん)/(しも)()(だん)(かつ)(よう)
    yagyō kamīchidan/kaminidan/shimonidan katsuyō
    ya-row upper-monograde/upper-bigrade/lower-bigrade inflection