半母音

半母音

Chinese

		half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half	vowel
simp. and trad. (半母音)		半	母音

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bànmǔyīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢˋ ㄇㄨˇ ㄧㄣ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bànmǔyīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ ㄇㄨˇ ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bànmǔyin
    • Wade–Giles: pan⁴-mu³-yin¹
    • Yale: bàn-mǔ-yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bannmuuin
    • Palladius: баньмуинь (banʹmuinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵¹ mu²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ in⁵⁵/

Noun

半母音

1. semivowel

Synonyms

• 半元音 (bànyuányīn)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
半	母	音
はん Grade: 2	ぼ Grade: 2	いん Grade: 1
on’yomi	kan’yōon	kan’on

Etymology

Compound of 半(はん) (han-, “semi-”) + 母音(ぼいん) (boin, “vowel”).[1][2][3]

First cited to a text from 1912 with the now-obsolete reading of hanboon.[4] The reading appears to have shifted from hanboon to hanboin by 1922.[1]

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) はんぼ​いん [hàńbóꜜìǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])[3][5]
• IPA^(key): [hã̠mbo̞ĩɴ]

Noun

半(はん)母(ぼ)音(いん) • (hanboin) 

1. [1912–???] (obsolete, phonology) a mora with a semivowel onglide, such as や (ya) or わ (wa)
   • 1912, 榊原, 淸, “5-(2) 母音と半母音 [5-2: Vowels and Semi-vowels]”, in 自習速記術 [Self-Taught Stenography], 以文館, pages 11–12:

     母(ぼ)音(いん)と云(い)ふものはアイウエオの五(ご)字(じ)、半(はん)母(ぼ)音(いん)と云(い)ふものはワヰウヱヲの五(ご)字(じ)を云(い)ふのであります。

     Boin to ifu mono wa aiueo no goji, hanboin to ifu mono wa wawiuweo no goji o ifu no de arimasu.

     ‘Vowels’ are the five letters a, i, u, e and o. ‘Semivowels’ are the five letters wa, wi, u, we and wo.

2. [from 1922] (phonetics, phonology) a semivowel

References

1. “半母音”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN
2. “半母音”, in デジタル大辞泉 (Dejitaru Daijisen)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
3. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
4. 1912, 自習速記術 (Jishū Sokki-jutsu, “Self-Taught Stenography”, in Japanese), Kiyoshi Yanagihara, Ōsaka: Ibunkan, viewable online here
5. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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Korean

Hanja in this term
半	母	音

Noun

半母音 • (banmo'eum) (hangeul 반모음)

1. Hanja form^? of 반모음 (“semivowel”).