連声
Japanese
    
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 連 | 声 | 
| れん Grade: 4 | しょう > じょう Grade: 2 | 
| on’yomi | |
Etymology
    
Compound of 連 (ren, “connect”) and 声 (shō, “voice”). The shō changes to jō as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Noun
    
連声 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 連聲, hiragana れんじょう, rōmaji renjō, historical hiragana れんじやう)
- (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.
Related terms
    
- 連濁 (rendaku)
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