五十音

Chinese

fifty; 50 sound; noise; news
simp. and trad.
(五十音)
五十

Pronunciation


Noun

五十音

  1. The modern ordering of the Japanese syllabaries.

Derived terms

  • 五十音圖五十音图

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
じゅう
Grade: 1
おん
Grade: 1
goon

Etymology

From 五十 (gojū, fifty) + (on, sound).

Pronunciation

Noun

()(じゅう)(おん) (gojūon) ごじふおん (gozifuon)?

  1. (phonology, orthography, grammar) all Japanese morae that can be spelled with 45 single modern kana and 2 historical kana (/ and /) customarily without diacritical marks ( and ), excluding and , arranged in a 5x10 table (五十音図 (gojūonzu, literally table of the fifty sounds)), used for phonological and grammatical analysis

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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