仮名遣い

See also: 假名遣い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
かり > か
Grade: 5

Grade: 1
つか > づか
Grade: S
irregular kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
假名遣い (kyūjitai)
仮名遣 (dated)

Etymology

Compound of 仮名(かな) (kana, kana) + (つか) (tsukai, use).

The tsukai changes to zukai as an instance of rendaku (連濁)

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) なづかい [kànázúꜜkàì] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ka̠na̠zɨᵝka̠i]

Noun

()()(づか) (kanazukai) かなづかひ (kanadukafi)?

  1. (linguistics) kana usage (orthography)
  2. (linguistics) how letters or characters are read or pronounced ("used")
    上代(じょうだい)特殊(とくしゅ)仮名(かな)(づか)
    jōdai tokushu kanazukai
    special kana usage in Old Japanese
  3. a method of writing (or "using") letters or characters

Derived terms

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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