仮名遣い

See also: 假名遣い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
仮 名 遣
かり > か
Grade: 5 		な
Grade: 1 		つか > づか
Grade: S
irregular kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
假名遣い (kyūjitai)
仮名遣 (dated)

Etymology

Compound of 仮名(かな) (kana, “kana”) + 遣(つか)い (tsukai, “use”).

The tsukai changes to zukai as an instance of rendaku (連濁)

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) かなづかい [kànázúꜜkàì] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ka̠na̠zɨka̠i]

Noun

仮(か)名(な)遣(づか)い • (kanazukai) ←かなづかひ (kanadukafi)?

  1. (linguistics) kana usage (orthography)
  2. (linguistics) how letters or characters are read or pronounced ("used")
    上代(じょうだい)特殊(とくしゅ)仮名(かな)遣(づか)い
    jōdai tokushu kanazukai
    special kana usage in Old Japanese
  3. a method of writing (or "using") letters or characters

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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