半母音

Chinese

		half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half	vowel
simp. and trad. (半母音)		半	母音

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bànmǔyīn

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄢˋ ㄇㄨˇ ㄧㄣ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bànmǔyīn
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ ㄇㄨˇ ㄧㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bànmǔyin
  - Wade–Giles: pan⁴-mu³-yin¹
  - Yale: bàn-mǔ-yīn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bannmuuin
  - Palladius: баньмуинь (banʹmuinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵¹ mu²¹⁴⁻²¹ in⁵⁵/

Noun

半母音

semivowel

Synonyms

半元音 (bànyuányīn)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
半	母	音
はん Grade: 2	ぼ Grade: 2	いん Grade: 1
on'yomi	kan'yōon	kan'on

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Etymology

Compound of 半(はん) (han-, “semi-”) + 母音(ぼいん) (boin, “vowel”).^[1]^[2]^[3]

First cited to a text from 1912 with the now-obsolete reading of hanboon.^[4] The reading appears to have shifted from hanboon to hanboin by 1922.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) はんぼいん [hàńbóꜜìǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])^[3]^[5]
IPA^(key): [hã̠mbo̞ĩɴ]

Noun

半(はん)母(ぼ)音(いん) • (hanboin)

[1912–???] (obsolete, phonology) a mora with a semivowel onglide, such as や (ya) or わ (wa)
- 1912, 淸榊原, “5-(2) 母音と半母音 [5-2: Vowels and Semi-vowels]”, in 自習速記術 [Self-Taught Stenography], 以文館, pages 11–12:
  
  母(ぼ)音(いん)と云(い)ふものはアイウエオの五(ご)字(じ)、半(はん)母(ぼ)音(いん)と云(い)ふものはワヰウヱヲの五(ご)字(じ)を云(い)ふのであります。
  Boin to ifu mono wa aiueo no goji, hanboin to ifu mono wa waiueo no goji o ifu no de arimasu.
  ‘Vowels’ are the five letters a, i, u, e and o. ‘Semivowels’ are the five letters wa, wi, u, we and wo.
[from 1922] (phonetics, phonology) a semivowel

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 “半母音”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
^ “半母音”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ 1912, 自習速記術 (Jishū Sokki-jutsu, “Self-Taught Stenography”, in Japanese), Kiyoshi Yanagihara, Ōsaka: Ibunkan, viewable online here
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
半	母	音

Noun

半母音 • (banmo'eum) (hangeul 반모음)

hanja form^? of 반모음 (“semivowel”)

[KDJ2-1] 1.0 ^1.1 “半母音”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006

[DDJS-2] “半母音”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months

[DJR-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[4] 1912, 自習速記術 (Jishū Sokki-jutsu, “Self-Taught Stenography”, in Japanese), Kiyoshi Yanagihara, Ōsaka: Ibunkan, viewable online here

[SMK5-5] Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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