や行
Japanese
Kanji in this term |
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行 |
ぎょう Grade: 2 |
goon |
Alternative spellings |
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ヤ行 也行 |
Etymology
や (ya) + 行 (“row”)
Pronunciation
- (Tokyo) やぎょー [yáꜜgyòò] (Atamadaka – [1])
- IPA(key): [ja̠ɡʲo̞ː]
Noun
や行 • (yagyō) ←やぎゃう (yagyau)?
- (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), ゆ/ユ (yu), え/エ (e) and よ/ヨ (yo), two of which are taken from the あ行 (“a-row”) to represent classical grammatical inflection in modern text
- ヤ行上一段/上二段/下二段活用
- yagyō kamiichidan/kaminidan/shimonidan katsuyō
- ya-row upper-monograde/upper-bigrade/lower-bigrade inflection
- ヤ行上一段/上二段/下二段活用