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ちょくおん
Meanings
Noun
Linguistics
1. single-kana sound
Alt. forms
直
ちょく
音
おん
ちょくおん
Pitch accent
ちょ
く
おん
Composed of
ちょく
direct; honest; frank; easygoing; lighthearted; night duty
おん
sound; noise; (speech) sound; Chinese-derived reading of a kanji
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
ちょくおん
か
depalatalization (e.g. dropping small kana in borrowing foreign words into Japanese); depalatalisation
ちょくおん
ひょうき
writing palatalized sounds with a single kana character