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ちょくおん
Meanings
Noun
Linguistics
1. single-kana sound
Alt. forms
ちょくおん
直
ちょく
音
おん
Pitch accent
ちょ
く
おん
Used in: 2
Composed of
ちょく
direct; in person; frankness; night duty; shift (e.g. in a factory)
おん
sound; noise; note; Chinese-derived character reading
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