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    3. 直音化

    直音化

    直ちょく音おん化か

    depalatalization (e.g. dropping small kana in borrowing foreign words into Japanese)

    NTNoun, Participle, VerbCore ConceptsKanji Vocab21 strokes

    ちょくおんか

    Noun, Participle, Verb

    1.
    depalatalization (e.g. dropping small kana in borrowing foreign words into Japanese), depalatalisation
    rare termlinguistics

    Stroke 0 / 21

    Speed1.0x

    Kanji that make up this word

    直
    ただ.ちに・なお.す・-なお.す・なお.る・なお.き・す.ぐ…(7)
    straightaway・honesty・frankness・fix・repair
    音
    おと・ね…(5)
    sound・noise
    化
    ば.ける・ば.かす・ふ.ける・け.する…(2)
    change・take the form of・influence・enchant・delude…(1)
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