鼻音

Chinese

		nose	sound; noise; news
simp. and trad. (鼻音)		鼻	音

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bíyīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˊ ㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei⁶ jam¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phī-im / phīⁿ-im

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bíyīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˊ ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bíyin
    • Wade–Giles: pi²-yin¹
    • Yale: bí-yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: byiin
    • Palladius: биинь (biinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi³⁵ in⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bei⁶ jam¹
    • Yale: beih yām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei⁶ jam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi⁶ yem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯²² jɐm⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phī-im
    • Tâi-lô: phī-im
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phixym
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰi⁴¹⁻²² im³³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phīⁿ-im
    • Tâi-lô: phīnn-im
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phvixym
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰĩ³³⁻²¹ im⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰĩ²²⁻²¹ im⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰĩ³³⁻¹¹ im⁴⁴/

Noun

鼻音

1. nasally sound in one's voice
2. (phonetics) nasal sound

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (鼻音):

• → Japanese: 鼻音(びおん) (bion)
• → Korean: 비음(鼻音) (bieum)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
鼻	音
び Grade: 3	おん Grade: 1
goon

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) びおん [bìóń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [bʲiõ̞ɴ]

Noun

鼻(び)音(おん) • (bion) 

1. (phonetics, phonology) a nasal sound
2. (phonology) a mora that contains a nasal sound, such as に (ni), み (mi), ん (n) or the historically nasalized vowel う (u)
3. Synonym of 撥音 (hatsuon, “moraic nasal”)

Antonyms

• 口音(こうおん) (kōon): oral sound

Related terms

• 鼻濁音(びだくおん) (bidakuon)
• 鼻母音(びぼいん) (biboin)

See also

• 唇音(しんおん) (shin'on)
• 舌音(ぜつおん) (zetsuon)