促音

Chinese

		to hurry; to rush; to hasten to hurry; to rush; to hasten; near; to promote	sound; noise; news
simp. and trad. (促音)		促	音

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 促音(そくおん) (sokuon, “sokuon”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cùyīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨˋ ㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cuk¹ jam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cùyīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨˋ ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cùyin
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻu⁴-yin¹
    • Yale: tsù-yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuhin
    • Palladius: цуинь (cuinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu⁵¹ in⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cuk¹ jam¹
    • Yale: chūk yām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsuk⁷ jam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cug¹ yem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊk̚⁵ jɐm⁵⁵/

Noun

促音

1. the Japanese geminate consonant っ/ッ

Japanese

Kanji in this term
促	音
そく Grade: S	おん Grade: 1
goon

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) そくおん [sòkúꜜòǹ] (Nakadaka – [2])
• (Tokyo) そくおん [sòkúóń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [so̞kɯ̟õ̞ɴ]

Noun

促(そく)音(おん) • (sokuon) 

1. (Japanese phonology and phonetics) a moraic obstruent (the first half of a Japanese geminate obstruent, such as the first [k] in [kk], usually phonologically noted as /Q/, bearing one mora as the coda of a syllable)

   Hypernym: 特殊拍

   Coordinate term: 撥音

2. (Japanese orthography) the small kana っ/ッ used to spell a moraic obstruent

See also

• 促(そく)音(おん)便(びん) (sokuonbin)
• 長(ちょう)子(し)音(いん) (chōshīn)

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.