や行

Japanese

Kanji in this term
行
ぎょう Grade: 2
goon

Alternative spellings
ヤ行 也行

Etymology

や (ya) +‎ 行 (“row”)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) やぎょー [yáꜜgyòò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ja̠ɡʲo̞ː]

Noun

や行(ぎょう) • (yagyō) ^{←やぎゃう (yagyau)?}

1. (phonology, orthography, grammar) the eighth row of the 五十音図 (literally “table of the fifty sounds”), consisting of the five kana や/ヤ (ya), い/イ (i) (alternatively, 𛀆/𛄠 (yi)), ゆ/ユ (yu), え/エ (e) (alternatively, 𛀁/𛄡 (ye)) and よ/ヨ (yo), two of which are taken from the あ行 (“a-row”) to represent classical grammatical inflection in modern text

   Coordinate terms: あ行, か行, さ行, た行, な行, は行, ま行, ら行, わ行

   ヤ行(ぎょう)上(かみ)一(いち)段(だん)/上(かみ)二(に)段(だん)/下(しも)二(に)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう)

   yagyō kamīchidan/kaminidan/shimonidan katsuyō

   ya-row upper-monograde/upper-bigrade/lower-bigrade inflection