Rendaku (連濁, Japanese pronunciation: [ɾendakɯᵝ], lit. 'sequential voicing') is a phenomenon in Japanese morphophonology that governs the voicing of the...
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Hachijō language (section Rendaku)
dialectsʼ joNde [jonde]. Like all Japonic languages, Hachijō exhibits rendaku (連濁, "sequential voicing"), wherein word-initial voiceless obstruents alternate...
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alcoholic drinks. Kuchi means "mouth", kami means "to chew" and zake is the rendaku form of "sake" found in compound words. Kuchikamizake is white in colour...
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Classical Japanese language Romanization of Japanese Hepburn romanization Rendaku Yojijukugo Other: History of writing in Vietnam Book of Song...
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for indicating a voiced consonant in the middle of a compound word (see rendaku), and they can never begin a word. In the Ainu language, it can be written...
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a/the floor". The verb haru becomes nominalized as hari and voiced through rendaku to become bari. In this form it refers to the method of boarding, as in...
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Also, Japanese exhibits word medial consonant mutation involving voicing, rendaku, in many compounds. Uralic languages like Finnish show consonant gradation...
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birthplace and employed him) and "hishi" (菱, which becomes "bishi" under rendaku) meaning "water caltrop", and hence "rhombus", which is reflected in the...
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rice. Fillings, toppings, condiments, and preparation vary widely. Due to rendaku consonant mutation, sushi is pronounced with zu instead of su when a prefix...
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jingasa. Kasa is the correct way to pronounce the word when it stands alone. Rendaku causes kasa to change to -gasa when it is preceded by another word specifying...
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gemination of certain consonants, as typically occurs in Japanese (i.e. rendaku): e.g. roku "six" and hyaku "hundred" yield roppyaku "six hundred". * This...
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('to continue') is つづく. For compound words where the dakuten reflects rendaku voicing, the original hiragana is used. For example, chi (血 'blood') is...
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Japanese phonology (section Rendaku)
cases where a mora is repeated once voiceless and once voiced, or where rendaku occurs in a compound word: つづく[続く] /tuzuku/, いちづける[位置付ける] /itizukeru/ from...
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-tō names. The kanji 藤, meaning wisteria, has the on'yomi tō (or, with rendaku, dō). Many Japanese people have surnames that include this kanji as the...
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examples of anime. Namakura Gatana (lit. 'dull-edged sword'; gatana is rendaku of katana) is a short comedic jidaigeki about a dim-witted self-appointed...
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should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing). The handakuten (半濁点, Japanese pronunciation: [handaꜜkɯ̥teɴ]...
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for indicating a voiced consonant in the middle of a compound word (see rendaku), and they can never begin a word, although some people will write the...
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dialect) when the character is a voicing of an underlying ち or つ (see rendaku), and the use of は, を, and へ to represent the sounds わ, お, and え, as relics...
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decorative. Breen, Jim (ed.). "鎖樋". WWWJDIC. Retrieved 15 July 2017. See rendaku for why multiple pronunciations. Dunnett, Nigel; Clayden, Andy (2007)....
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written わらはう warahau. The kana づ du and ぢ di, which are mostly only used in rendaku in modern kana usage, are more common. Modern kana usage replaces them...
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and tama 霊 "spirit; soul" (or 魂 "soul; spirit; ghost") voiced as dama in rendaku. In contrast, the unvoiced kototama pronunciation especially refers to...
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pronounced /dø‿zɔm/. In Japanese phonology, sandhi is primarily exhibited in rendaku (consonant mutation from unvoiced to voiced when not word-initial, in some...
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and ツ (tu) (usually romanised as chi and tsu) undergo a sound change (rendaku) and become voiced when they occur in the middle of a compound word. In...
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-zaru is a negative conjugation on the three verbs, matching zaru, the rendaku form of saru (猿) "monkey" used in compounds. Thus the saying (which does...
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calories. The gonomi, meaning "preference", in the name of the snack is the rendaku version of the konomi in okonomiyaki, although ajigonomi is not related...
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"no" respectively, due to consonant mutation ("Kiri" → "Giri") known as rendaku in the Japanese language. The Paulownia Seals contain the leaves and flowers...
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Oblast, Ukraine Dachi of Iberia (reign 522–534) The rendaku form of karate stances (立ち) The rendaku form of tachi (太刀) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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station opened in the town, but it was named Maibara, not Maihara (see rendaku). Many Japanese people confused the town's name and the station's name...
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with two notable exceptions: When a word exhibits sequential voicing, or rendaku, as a result of compounding, a second morpheme that would otherwise begin...
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'occur', which is a modification of 生ずる shō-zuru (single character + ずる (rendaku of する)) Note that some of these verbs share a kanji reading (i, u, and...
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