約音

Japanese
Kanji in this term
約 音
やく
Grade: 4		 おん
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) やくおん [yàkúóń] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠kɯ̟ᵝõ̞ɴ]

Noun

約(やく)音(おん) • (yakuon) 

  1. (linguistics) syncope, contraction (phonetic phenomenon whereby neighbouring sounds are lost from the interior of a word)

Derived terms

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 2011, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Seventh Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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