五十音

Chinese

		fifty; 50	sound; noise; news
simp. and trad. (五十音)		五十	音
anagram		十五音

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wǔshíyīn

(Zhuyin): ㄨˇ ㄕˊ ㄧㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ng⁵ sap⁶ jam¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wǔshíyīn
  - Zhuyin: ㄨˇ ㄕˊ ㄧㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wǔshíhyin
  - Wade–Giles: wu³-shih²-yin¹
  - Yale: wǔ-shŕ-yīn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuushyrin
  - Palladius: ушиинь (ušiinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /u²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵ in⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ng⁵ sap⁶ jam¹
  - Yale: ńgh sahp yām
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ng⁵ sap⁹ jam¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ng⁵ seb⁶ yem¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋ̍¹³ sɐp̚² jɐm⁵⁵/

Noun

五十音

The modern ordering of the Japanese syllabaries.

Derived terms

五十音圖 / 五十音图

Japanese

Kanji in this term
五	十	音
ご Grade: 1	じゅう Grade: 1	おん Grade: 1
goon

Etymology

From 五十 (gojū, “fifty”) +‎ 音 (on, “sound”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ごじゅうおん [gòjúꜜùòǹ] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɡo̞ʑɨːõ̞ɴ]

Noun

五(ご)十(じゅう)音(おん) • (gojūon) ^{←ごじふおん (gozifuon)^?}

(phonology, orthography, grammar) all Japanese morae that can be spelled with 45 single modern kana and 2 historical kana (ゐ/ヰ and ゑ/ヱ) customarily without diacritical marks (゛ and ゜), excluding っ and ん, arranged in a 5x10 table (五十音図 (gojūonzu, literally “table of the fifty sounds”)), used for phonological and grammatical analysis

Derived terms

五(ご)十(じゅう)音(おん)仮(が)名(な) (gojūongana)
五(ご)十(じゅう)音(おん)順(じゅん) (gojūonjun)

See also

伊(い)呂(ろ)波(は) (iroha)

References

^ 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