や行

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
行
ぎょう
Grade: 2
goon
Alternative spellings
ヤ行
也行
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Etymology

や (ya) +‎ 行 (“row”)

Pronunciation

Noun

や行(ぎょう) • (yagyō) ←やぎゃう (yagyau)?

  1. (phonology, orthography, grammar) the eighth row of the 五十音図 (literally “table of the fifty sounds”), consisting of the five kana や/ヤ (ya), い/イ (i) (alternatively, 𛀆/𛄠 (yi)), ゆ/ユ (yu), え/エ (e) (alternatively, 𛀁/𛄡 (ye)) and よ/ヨ (yo), two of which are taken from the あ行 (“a-row”) to represent classical grammatical inflection in modern text
    Coordinate terms: あ行, か行, さ行, た行, な行, は行, ま行, ら行, わ行
    ヤ行(ぎょう)上(かみ)一(いち)段(だん)/上(かみ)二(に)段(だん)/下(しも)二(に)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう)
    yagyō kamīchidan/kaminidan/shimonidan katsuyō
    ya-row upper-monograde/upper-bigrade/lower-bigrade inflection
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