五十音図
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 五 | 十 | 音 | 図 |
| ご Grade: 1 | じゅう Grade: 1 | おん Grade: 1 | ず Grade: 2 |
| goon | |||
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 五十音圖 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology
五十音 (literally “fifty sounds”) + 図 (“diagram”)
Pronunciation
- On’yomi: Goon
- (Tokyo) ごじゅうおんず [gòjúúóꜜǹzù] (Nakadaka – [4])
- IPA(key): [ɡo̞ʑɨᵝːõ̞nd͡zɨᵝ]
Noun
五十音図 • (gojūonzu) ←ごじふおんづ (gozifuondu)?
- (phonology, orthography, grammar) the 5x10 table used for arranging all the 47 kana used for the 五十音 (literally “fifty sounds”), whose 列 (“columns”) are arranged by the vowels (/a/, /i/, /ɯ/, /e/, /o/) and 行 (“rows”) are arranged by the consonants (Ø, /k/, /s/, /t/, /n/, /h/, /m/, /j/, /ɾ/, /w/; voiced obstruents and /p/ are customarily not included because they were rarely distinguished in writing); columns are ranked by 段 (“grade”), with the vowel /a/ being the highest grade and the vowel /o/ being the lowest; the missing cells of the や行 (“ya-row”) and わ行 (“wa-row”) are filled with い/イ, う/ウ and え/エ taken from the あ行 (“a-row”), in order to represent classical grammatical inflection with modern text
- Hyponyms: あ行, あ段, い段, う段, え段, お段, か行, さ行, た行, な行, は行, ま行, や行, ら行, わ行