拗音

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 拗音(ようおん) (yōon, “the sound of a mora”).

拗音

1. the sound of a Japanese mora involving a consonant, semi-vowel, and vowel, such as きゃ (kya) or the obsolete クヮ (kwa) (Classifier: 個／个)

• 長音／长音 (chángyīn)
• 撥音／拨音
• 促音 (cùyīn)
• 母音 (mǔyīn)
• 子音 (zǐyīn)

拗 (“crooked”) +‎ 音 (“sound”)

• (Tokyo) よーおん [yóꜜòòǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [jo̞ːõ̞ɴ]

拗(よう)音(おん) • (yōon) ^{←えうおん (euon)?}

1. (Japanese orthography and phonology) in 和語 (wago, “native words”) and 漢語 (kango, “Classical Chinese words”), a mora that is spelt with:

   Antonym: 直音 (chokuon)

   1. one of the full-sized kana, き (ki), ぎ (gi), し (shi), じ (ji), ち (chi), ぢ (ji), に (ni), ひ (hi), び (bi), ぴ (pi), み (mi) and り (ri), followed by one the small kana, ゃ, ゅ and ょ, to represent the palatalization of the mora
   2. one of the full-sized kana, く (ku) and ぐ (gu), followed by the small kana ゎ, to represent the historical labialization of the mora

• → Chinese: 拗音 (ǎoyīn)