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ようおん

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For pronunciation and definitions of ようおん – see the following entry.
拗音
[noun] (Japanese orthography and phonology) in 和語 (wago, native words) and 漢語 (kango, Classical Chinese words), a mora that is spelt with:
[noun] one of the full-sized kana, (ki), (gi), (shi), (ji), (chi), (ji), (ni), (hi), (bi), (pi), (mi) and (ri), followed by one the small kana, , and , to represent the palatalization of the mora
[noun] one of the full-sized kana, (ku) and (gu), followed by the small kana , to represent the historical labialization of the mora
(This term, ようおん (yōon), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)