音節

See also: 音节

Chinese

		sound; noise; news	festival; section; segment festival; section; segment; point; part; to economize; to save; temperate
trad. (音節)		音	節
simp. (音节)		音	节

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīnjié

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣ ㄐㄧㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam¹ zit³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): im-chat / im-chiat

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīnjié
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣ ㄐㄧㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yinjié
    • Wade–Giles: yin¹-chieh²
    • Yale: yīn-jyé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: injye
    • Palladius: иньцзе (inʹcze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jam¹ zit³
    • Yale: yām jit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam¹ dzit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: yem¹ jid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐm⁵⁵ t͡siːt̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: im-chat
    • Tâi-lô: im-tsat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: imzad
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /im⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sat̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /im³³ t͡sat̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: im-chiat
    • Tâi-lô: im-tsiat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: imciad
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /im⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡siɛt̚³²/

Noun

音節

1. (linguistics) syllable

   聲調在漢語音節感知中的作用 [MSC, trad.]
   声调在汉语音节感知中的作用 [MSC, simp.]

   shēngdiào zài hànyǔ yīnjié gǎnzhī zhōng de zuòyòng [Pinyin]

   the role of tone in Chinese syllable perception

2. (of music) rhythm

Derived terms

• 單音節／单音节 (dānyīnjié)
• 多音節／多音节 (duōyīnjié)
• 閉音節／闭音节 (bìyīnjié)
• 開音節／开音节 (kāiyīnjié)
• 雙音節／双音节 (shuāngyīnjié)
• 音節文字／音节文字 (yīnjié wénzì)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (音節):

• → Japanese: 音節(おんせつ) (onsetsu)
• → Korean: 음절(音節) (eumjeol)
• → Vietnamese: âm tiết (音節)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
音	節
おん Grade: 1	せつ Grade: 4
goon	kan'on

Alternative spelling
音節 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

音 (“sound”) +‎ 節 (“segment”) Not related to English onset despite similarity.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) おんせつ [òńsétsú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [õ̞ɰ̃se̞t͡sɨ]

Noun

音(おん)節(せつ) • (onsetsu) 

1. (phonology) a syllable

   音(おん)節(せつ)文(も)字(じ)

   onsetsu moji

   a syllabary

2. (loosely, phonology, poetry) Synonym of モーラ (mōra, “a mora”)

Usage notes

• A Japanese syllable is said to consist of at least one vowel; optionally preceded by an onglide, then a consonant; and optionally followed by the vowel's lengthening tail (長音 (chōon, literally “long sound”)), the head of a geminate consonant (促音 (sokuon)), a moraic nasal (撥音 (hatsuon)), or in some analyses, an offglide with which the main vowel is said to form a diphthong based on morphology and/or pitch accent. For example:
  • 核 (kaku) consists of two syllables, か (ka, consonant /k/ + vowel /a/) and く (ku, consonant /k/ + vowel /u/). It has two morae, か and く.
  • 東京 (Tōkyō) consists of two syllables, とう (tō, consonant /t/ + vowel /o/ + lengthening tail /ː/) and きょう (kyō, consonant /k/ + onglide /j/ + vowel /o/ + lengthening tail /ː/). It has four morae, と, う, きょ and う.
  • 学校 (gakkō) consists of two syllables, がっ (gak, consonant /ɡ/ + vowel /a/ + geminate head /Q/ [k]) and こう (kō, consonant /k/ + vowel /o/ + lengthening tail /ː/). It has four morae, が, っ, こ and う.
  • 日本 (Nihon) consists of two syllables, に (ni, consonant /n/ + vowel /i/) and ほん (hon, consonant /h/ + vowel /o/ + moraic nasal /N/). It has three morae, に, ほ and ん.
  • 愛 (ai) consists of one syllable, あい (ai, vowel /a/ + offglide /i/). It has two morae, あ and い, and one morpheme, 愛 (“love”).
• Long vowels, geminate consonants, moraic nasals and diphthongs did not occur in Old Japanese, which is why Old Japanese is often described as consisting of only syllables (not morae like later Japanese). These features gradually developed in later stages of Japanese through various processes, such as 音便 (onbin, “euphony”) and borrowing words from Classical Chinese, causing the need to distinguish between syllables and morae.

See also

• モーラ (mōra), 拍(はく) (haku, “mora”)
• アクセント核(かく) (akusento-kaku)

Korean

Hanja in this term
音	節

Noun

音節 • (eumjeol) (hangeul 음절)

1. hanja form^? of 음절 (“syllable”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
音	節

Noun

音節

1. chữ Hán form of âm tiết (“syllable”).