鼻音

Chinese

		nose	sound; noise; news
simp. and trad. (鼻音)		鼻	音

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bíyīn

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˊ ㄧㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bei⁶ jam¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phī-im / phīⁿ-im

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bíyīn
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˊ ㄧㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bíyin
  - Wade–Giles: pi²-yin¹
  - Yale: bí-yīn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: byiin
  - Palladius: биинь (biinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi³⁵ in⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bei⁶ jam¹
  - Yale: beih yām
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bei⁶ jam¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: béi⁶ yem¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯²² jɐm⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phī-im
  - Tâi-lô: phī-im
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phixym
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰi⁴¹⁻²² im³³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phīⁿ-im
  - Tâi-lô: phīnn-im
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phvixym
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰĩ³³⁻²¹ im⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰĩ²²⁻²¹ im⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pʰĩ³³⁻¹¹ im⁴⁴/

Noun

鼻音

nasally sound in one's voice
(phonetics) nasal sound

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (鼻音):

→ Japanese: 鼻音(びおん) (bion)
→ Korean: 비음(鼻音) (bieum)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
鼻	音
び Grade: 3	おん Grade: 1
goon

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) びおん [bìóń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [bʲiõ̞ɴ]

Noun

鼻(び)音(おん) • (bion)

(phonetics, phonology) a nasal sound
(phonology) a mora that contains a nasal sound, such as に (ni), み (mi), ん (n) or the historically nasalized vowel う (u)
synonym of 撥音 (hatsuon, “moraic nasal”)

Antonyms

口音(こうおん) (kōon): oral sound

Related terms

鼻濁音(びだくおん) (bidakuon)
鼻母音(びぼいん) (biboin)

See also

唇音(しんおん) (shin'on)
舌音(ぜつおん) (zetsuon)

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