慣用音

Japanese

Kanji in this term
慣	用	音
かん Grade: 5	よう Grade: 2	おん Grade: 1
kan'on		goon

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慣用音

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Examples
お茶(ちゃ) (o-cha): tea 輸(ゆ)出(しゅつ) (yushutsu): export 深(しん)圳(せん) (shinsen): Shenzhen

Etymology

/kwaɴ.jouoɴ/ → /kwaɴ.joːoɴ/ → /kaɴ.joːoɴ/

Compound of 慣用 (kan'yō, “customary or common use”) +‎ 音 (on, “sound”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かんよーおん [kàń'yóꜜòòǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])^[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [kã̠ɰ̃jo̞ːõ̞ɴ]

Noun

慣(かん)用(よう)音(おん) • (kan'yōon) ^{←くわんようおん (kwan'youon)?}

1. a normalized kanji reading that falls outside of the conventional categories (呉音 (go-on), 漢音 (kan-on), 唐音 (tō-on)), not showing the expected correspondences to the "correct" Chinese pronunciation recorded in rime dictionaries

Synonyms

• 慣用読(かんようよ)み (kan'yōyomi)

See also

• 慣用語(かんようご) (kan'yōgo)

References

1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
3. 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