半母音

Chinese
 
half; semi-; incomplete
half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
 vowel
simp. and trad.
(半母音)		 半 母音

Pronunciation

Noun

半母音

  1. semivowel

Synonyms

Japanese
Kanji in this term
半 母 音
はん
Grade: 2		 ぼ
Grade: 2		 いん
Grade: 1
on’yomi kan’yōon kan’on

Etymology

Compound of 半(はん) (han-, “semi-”) + 母音(ぼいん) (boin, “vowel”).[1][2][3]

First cited to a text from 1912 with the now-obsolete reading of hanboon.[4] The reading appears to have shifted from hanboon to hanboin by 1922.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) はんぼ​いん [hàńbóꜜìǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])[3][5]
  • IPA(key): [hã̠mbo̞ĩɴ]

Noun

半(はん)母(ぼ)音(いん) • (hanboin) 

  1. [1912–???] (obsolete, phonology) a mora with a semivowel onglide, such as や (ya) or わ (wa)
    • 1912, 榊原, 淸, “5-(2) 母音と半母音 [5-2: Vowels and Semi-vowels]”, in 自習速記術 [Self-Taught Stenography], 以文館, pages 11–12:
      母(ぼ)音(いん)と云(い)ふものはアイウエオの五(ご)字(じ)、半(はん)母(ぼ)音(いん)と云(い)ふものはワヰウヱヲの五(ご)字(じ)を云(い)ふのであります。
      Boin to ifu mono wa aiueo no goji, hanboin to ifu mono wa wawiuweo no goji o ifu no de arimasu.
      ‘Vowels’ are the five letters a, i, u, e and o. ‘Semivowels’ are the five letters wa, wi, u, we and wo.
  2. [from 1922] (phonetics, phonology) a semivowel

References
  1. “半母音”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN
  2. “半母音”, in デジタル大辞泉 (Dejitaru Daijisen)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. 1912, 自習速記術 (Jishū Sokki-jutsu, “Self-Taught Stenography”, in Japanese), Kiyoshi Yanagihara, Ōsaka: Ibunkan, viewable online here
  5. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean
Hanja in this term
半母音

Noun

半母音 • (banmo'eum) (hangeul 반모음)

  1. Hanja form? of 반모음 (“semivowel”).
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