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 | ||
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨˇ ㄕˊ ㄧㄣ
- Tongyong Pinyin: wǔshíhyin
- Wade–Giles: wu3-shih2-yin1
- Yale: wǔ-shŕ-yīn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuushyrin
- Palladius: ушиинь (ušiinʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /u²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵ in⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: ng5 sap6 jam1
- Yale: ńgh sahp yām
- Cantonese Pinyin: ng5 sap9 jam1
- Guangdong Romanization: ng5 seb6 yem1
- Sinological IPA (key): /ŋ̍¹³ sɐp̚² jɐm⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
五十音
- 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 | ||
Etymology
From 五十 (gojū, “fifty”) + 音 (on, “sound”).
Pronunciation
Noun
五十音 • (gojūon) ←ごじふおん (gozifuon)?
- (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
Derived terms
- 五十音仮名 (gojūongana)
- 五十音順 (gojūonjun)
See also
References
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN