こうおん

See also: ごうおん, こおん, and ごおん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of こうおん – see the following entries.
【高温】
[noun] high temperature, high heat
【高音】
[noun] high pitch
【喉音】
[noun] (traditional Chinese phonology) a guttural onset consonant, any of the group of consonants represented by the Middle Chinese pronunciation the following (母 (literally “mother”) means "base sound"; the character before it is the one that bears the onset consonant): 影母 (/ʔ/), 曉母 (/x/), 匣母 (/ɦ/) and 喻母 (/j/)
[noun] (loosely) a guttural sound
[noun] (phonetics) synonym of 声門音 (seimon'on, “glottal sound”)
【候音】
[noun] guttural or throaty sound (of speech)
[noun] glottal (consonant)
(This term, こうおん (kōon), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)

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