れんじょう

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Japanese

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For pronunciation and definitions of れんじょう – see the following entries.
連声
[noun] (linguistics) a morphological change of an initial syllable of the second kanji under the influence of the historical coda of the first kanji in a word, such as 天皇, whose pronunciation is not *ten’ō but tennō.
(This term, れんじょう (renjō), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

(The following entries are uncreated: 恋情, 連状, 連乗, 連城, 廉譲, 憐情.)