ちょくおん
Meanings
Noun
Linguistics
1. single-kana sound
Kanji used
straight
sound
Pitch accent
ちょ
おん
Composed of
direct; in person; frankness; night duty; shift (e.g. in a factory)
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
depalatalization (e.g. dropping small kana in borrowing foreign words into Japanese); depalatalisation
writing palatalized sounds with a single kana character