清音

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Chinese

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clear; distinct; complete
clear; distinct; complete; pure
 
sound; noise; news
trad. (清音)
simp. #(清音)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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清音

  1. (phonetics) voiceless sound
  2. clear tone, crystalline sound

Antonyms

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
せい
Grade: 4
おん
Grade: 1
kan'on goon
Alternative spelling
淸音 (kyūjitai)
 清音 on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

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Literary Chinese 清音 (qīngyīn, literally clear sound)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(せい)(おん) (seion

  1. (traditional Chinese phonology) a voiceless and unaspirated onset obstruent, including the glottal stop
  2. (traditional Japanese phonology) any mora listed on the 五十音図 (gojūonzu, literally chart of the fifty sounds), without a voiced onset obstruent or /p/
    Hyponyms: 子音, 母音, 半母音
    • 1897 March, “〇濁音 [〇Muddy Sounds]”, in 日本文典 [A Japanese Grammar], 中等學科敎授法硏究會:
      五十音四行濁れる音あり淸音文字に、゛附しそのとせ
      Gojūonchū, ka sa ta ha no shigyō ni, nigoreru on ari. Seion moji no kata ni, ゛ ten o fushite, sono shirushi to seri.
      Among the fifty sounds, those of the ka, sa, ta and ha-rows can be muddied up. They are written by attaching the dots ゛ on the shoulders of the letters for the clear sounds.
    • 1897 March, “〇半濁音 [〇Semi-Muddy Sounds]”, in 日本文典 [A Japanese Grammar], 中等學科敎授法硏究會:
      五十音波行半濁の音あり淸音文字に゜附しそのとせ
      Gojūonchū, hagyō ni, handaku no on ari. Seion moji no kata ni, ゜ ten o fushite, sono shirushi to seri.
      Among the fifty sounds, those of the ha-row can be partially muddied up. They are written by attaching the dot ゜ on the shoulders of the letters for the clear sounds.
    • 1902, Hirano, Hidekichi, “第十九章  淸音濁音半濁音 [Chapter 19: Clear Sounds, Muddy Sounds and Semi-Muddy Sounds]”, in 國語聲音學 [The Phonetics of the National Language], 國光社, page 152:
      濁音ある故にに對して淸音作らねばならず半濁音(次淸音)と云ふものもあることなる
      ぱ ぴ ぷ ぺ ぽ
      一行五音の半濁音(一名次淸音)として、アカサタナハマヤラワ五十音淸音と云はれ居る
      Dakuon ga aru yue ni, kore ni taishite seion o mo tsukarane ba narazu, handakuon (jiseion) to iu mono mo aru koto ni naru.
      pa pi pu pe po
      no ichigyō goon no handakuon (ichimei jiseion) to shite, a ka sa ta na ha ma ya ra wa jūgyō gojūon ga seion to iwarete iru.
      Since there are muddy sounds, it follows that there must also be the opposite, ‘clear sounds’, and additionally what are known as ‘semi-muddy sounds’ (‘quasi-clear sounds’). These five sounds, arranged in one row, are known as ‘semi-muddy sounds’ (i.e. ‘quasi-clear sounds’):
      pa pi pu pe po
      Then, the fifty sounds arranged in ten rows, a, ka, sa, ta, na, ha, ma, ya, ra and wa, are called ‘clear sounds’.
Table of unvoiced hiragana

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