拗音

Chinese

		stubborn; contrary; bend stubborn; contrary; bend; break in two	sound; noise; news
simp. and trad. (拗音)		拗	音

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 拗音(ようおん) (yōon, “the sound of a mora”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ǎoyīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄠˇ ㄧㄣ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ǎoyīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄠˇ ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ǎoyin
    • Wade–Giles: ao³-yin¹
    • Yale: ǎu-yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: aoin
    • Palladius: аоинь (aoinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ in⁵⁵/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 拗音

1. the sound of a Japanese mora involving a consonant, semi-vowel, and vowel, such as きゃ (kya) or the obsolete クヮ (kwa)

Related terms

• 長音／长音 (chángyīn)
• 撥音／拨音
• 促音 (cùyīn)
• 母音 (mǔyīn)
• 子音 (zǐyīn)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
拗	音
よう Hyōgai	おん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Etymology

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Noun

拗(よう)音(おん) • (yōon) ^{←えうおん (euon)?}

1. the sound of a mora involving a consonant, semi-vowel, and vowel, such as きゃ (kya) or the obsolete クヮ (kwa)

Descendants

• → Chinese: 拗音 (ǎoyīn)

Further reading

• 拗音 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja