五十音

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Chinese

fifty; 50 sound; noise; news
simp. and trad.
(五十音) 		五十 音
anagram 十五音
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Pronunciation

Noun

五十音

  1. The modern ordering of the Japanese syllabaries.

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
五 十 音
ご
Grade: 1 		じゅう
Grade: 1 		おん
Grade: 1
goon
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Etymology

From 五十 (gojū, “fifty”) +‎ 音 (on, “sound”).

Pronunciation

Noun

五(ご)十(じゅう)音(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 (ゐ/ヰ and ゑ/ヱ) customarily without diacritical marks (゛ and ゜), excluding っ and ん, arranged in a 5x10 table (五十音図 (gojūonzu, literally “table of the fifty sounds”)), used for phonological and grammatical analysis

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References

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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