Rendaku (連濁, Japanese pronunciation: [ɾendakɯᵝ], lit. 'sequential voicing') is a morphophonological phenomenon in Japanese where the second (or non-initial)...

dialectsʼ joNde [jonde]. Like all Japonic languages, Hachijō exhibits rendaku (連濁, "sequential voicing"), wherein word-initial voiceless obstruents alternate...

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...

Classical Japanese language Romanization of Japanese Hepburn romanization Rendaku Yojijukugo Other: History of writing in Vietnam Book of Song...

-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...

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...

birthplace and employed him) and "hishi" (菱, which becomes "bishi" under rendaku) meaning "water caltrop", and hence "rhombus", which is reflected in the...

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...

should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing). The handakuten (半濁点, Japanese pronunciation: [handaꜜkɯ̥teɴ]...

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...

Also, Japanese exhibits word medial consonant mutation involving voicing, rendaku, in many compounds. Uralic languages like Finnish show consonant gradation...

for indicating a voiced consonant in the middle of a compound word (see rendaku), and they don't usually begin a word. The dakuten form of the shi character...

decorative. Breen, Jim (ed.). "鎖樋". WWWJDIC. Retrieved 15 July 2017. See rendaku for why multiple pronunciations. Dunnett, Nigel; Clayden, Andy (2007)....

gemination of certain consonants, as typically occurs in Japanese (i.e. rendaku): e.g. roku "six" and hyaku "hundred" yield roppyaku "six hundred". * This...

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...

('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...

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...

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...

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...

-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...

pronounced /dø‿zɔm/. In Japanese phonology, sandhi is primarily exhibited in rendaku (consonant mutation from unvoiced to voiced when not word-initial, in some...

and tama 霊 "spirit; soul" (or 魂 "soul; spirit; ghost") voiced as dama in rendaku. In contrast, the unvoiced kototama pronunciation especially refers to...

rice. Fillings, toppings, condiments, and preparation vary widely. Due to rendaku consonant mutation, sushi is pronounced with zu instead of su when a prefix...

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...

"no" respectively, due to consonant mutation ("Kiri" → "Giri") known as rendaku in the Japanese language. The Paulownia Seals contain the leaves and flowers...

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...

'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...

where the kanji is originally read as si or chi but becomes ji due to the rendaku rule of Japanese phonology). The zen used in all the names listed below...

heya is pronounced beya due to a Japanese phonological tendency called rendaku, e.g. the stable Kokonoe is called Kokonoe-beya and a sumo stable is referred...

character is duplicated and the reading of the second character has voicing (rendaku), as in 人人 hito-bito "people" (more often written with the iteration mark...