ん
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
| Character | ん |
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER N |
| Codepoint | U+3093 |
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Etymology [edit]
Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 无 in the cursive sōsho style. That's when it was distinguished separately from "mu".
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: [ɴ]
- The actual realization of this phoneme depends on its phonetic context, as follows:
- IPA: [n] before dental and alveolar consonants t, d, ch, j, n, r, s, ts, z
- IPA: [m] before m, p, b
- IPA: [ŋ] before k, g
- IPA: [ɴ] at the end of utterances, before approximants w and y, and before vowels, often causing nasalization of the preceding vowel
Syllable [edit]
ん (Hepburn romanization n)
- The hiragana syllable ん (n), whose equivalent in katakana is ン (n). It is the forty-eighth syllable of the gojūon order.
Related terms [edit]
- No normal Japanese words begin with ん (n). See Special:Allpages/ん.
