はつおん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of はつおん – see the following entries.

【発音】 [noun] pronunciation [noun] (music) sounding [verb] to pronounce (to make the sound associated with a word) [verb] (music) to sound

【撥音】 [noun] (Japanese phonology and phonetics) a moraic nasal (usually phonologically noted as /N/, variously realized as [m], [n], [ŋ], [ɴ] or a nasalized vowel, bearing one mora as the coda of a syllable) [noun] (Japanese orthography) the kana ん/ン (n) used to spell a moraic nasal

(This term, はつおん, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)