子音

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Chinese[edit]

 
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
sound; noise; news
simp. and trad.
(子音)

Etymology[edit]

Japanese 子音 (shiin)

Pronunciation[edit]


Noun[edit]

子音

  1. (phonetics) consonant

Synonyms[edit]

See also[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
おん
Grade: 1
goon
Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
いん
Grade: 1
kan’on
 子音 on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology[edit]

(child) +‎ (sound). From the notion of a mothering vowel mating with a fathering consonant and giving birth to an onsetted mora, according to Meiji-era linguists, as in father /k/ + mother (/a/) = child (/ka/).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

()(いん) or ()(おん) (shiin or shion

  1. (obsolete, phonology) any of the morae with an onset consonant listed on the 五十音図 (gojūonzu, literally chart of the fifty sounds), such as (ka) or (shi), but not (a) or (i), and not (ga), (ji) or (pa)
    Hypernyms: 清音 (seion), 熟音 (jukuon)
    Meronyms: 父音 (fuon), 母音 (boon)
    Coordinate terms: 濁音 (dakuon), 半濁音 (handakuon)
  2. (phonetics, phonology) a consonant
    Synonym: 父音 (fuin)
    Coordinate term: 母音 (boin)

Antonyms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Chinese: 子音 (zǐyīn)
  • Korean: 자음 (ja'eum)

References[edit]

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.