Chinese

Noun

連濁

1. (linguistics) rendaku

Japanese

Etymology

From 連 ‎(ren, “continuous, sequential”) +‎ 濁 ‎(daku, “voicing”).

Pronunciation

• On'yomi: Goon
• (Tokyo) れんだく [rèńdákú] (Heiban - [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ɺ̠ẽ̞nda̠kɯᵝ]

Noun

連濁 ‎(hiragana れんだく, romaji rendaku)

1. (linguistics) a morphological change of an initial syllable of the second word of a compound in Japanese from an unvoiced sound to a corresponding voiced one (more precisely, a change to the sound of corresponding kana with a 濁点).

Related terms

• 連声 (れんじょう) ‎(renjō)

See also

• Category:Japanese rendaku

References

1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Noun

連濁 • ‎(yeontak) ‎(hangeul 연탁)

1. Hanja form^? of 연탁, “rendaku”.