반치음

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Korean

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Etymology

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Sino-Korean word from 半齒音, from (half) + (tooth) + (sound)

Pronunciation

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  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈpa̠(ː)ɲt͡ɕʰiɯm]
  • Phonetic hangul: [(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?banchieum
Revised Romanization (translit.)?banchieum
McCune–Reischauer?panch'iŭm
Yale Romanization?pān.chium

Noun

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반치음 (banchieum) (hanja 半齒音)

  1. the obsolete Korean consonant .

Usage notes

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The Hunmin Jeongeum defines the sound written by as a "semi-incisor sound" found as the initial consonant of the Sino-Korean reading of the Chinese character . It is conventionally reconstructed as /z/, both because it behaves as a voiced counterpart to /s/ in Middle Korean morphophonology and because this is the form indicated by dialectal reconstruction. Most instances of have been deleted in modern Korean.[1]

In Middle Sino-Korean, corresponds to Middle Chinese /ȵ/ (the initials). Due to the deletion of mentioned above, all Sino-Korean readings with now have null initials.[2] Sino-Korean readings originally with include: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and .

References

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  1. ^ * Lee, Ki-Moon, Ramsey, S. Robert (2011) A History of the Korean Language, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 139—140
  2. ^ 반치음[Banchieum]”, in 두피디아 [dupidia]‎[1] (in Korean), Doosan Encyclopedia, 2019 May 27 (last accessed)