喉音

Chinese

		throat; larynx	sound; noise; news
trad. (喉音)		喉	音
simp. #(喉音)		喉	音

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hóuyīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄡˊ ㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hau⁴ jam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hóuyīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄡˊ ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hóuyin
    • Wade–Giles: hou²-yin¹
    • Yale: hóu-yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hourin
    • Palladius: хоуинь (xouinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xoʊ̯³⁵ in⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hau⁴ jam¹
    • Yale: hàuh yām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hau⁴ jam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: heo⁴ yem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐu̯²¹ jɐm⁵⁵/

Noun

喉音

1. (phonetics) glottal/laryngeal consonant
2. (Chinese phonetics) a guttural onset consonant, any of the group of consonants represented by the Middle Chinese pronunciation the following 字母 (zìmǔ): 影 (/ʔ/), 曉／晓 (/h/ or /x/), 匣 (/ɦ/) and 喻 (/j/)

Synonyms

• 聲門音／声门音

Japanese

Kanji in this term
喉	音
こう Grade: S	おん Grade: 1
kan’on	goon

Etymology

Literary Chinese 喉音 (hóuyīn, literally “throaty sound”)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) こ​ーおん [kóꜜòòǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ko̞ːõ̞ɴ]

Noun

喉(こう)音(おん) • (kōon) 

1. (traditional Chinese phonology) a guttural onset consonant, any of the group of consonants represented by the Middle Chinese pronunciation the following (母 (literally “mother”) means "base sound"; the character before it is the one that bears the onset consonant): 影母 (/ʔ/), 曉母 (/x/), 匣母 (/ɦ/) and 喻母 (/j/)

   Hypernym: 五音

2. (loosely) a guttural sound
   • 1897 March, “〇母音 [〇Mother Sounds]”, in 日本文典 [A Japanese Grammar], 中等學科敎授法硏究會:

     五十音を分ちて、母音と、子音との二となす。母音は、單純なる喉音にして、その數五あり、アイウエオ是なり。

     Gojūon o wakachite, BOON to, SHION to no ni to nasu. Boon wa, tanjun naru kōon ni shite, sono kazu go ari, a i u e o kore nari.

     Dividing the fifty sounds into two groups, there are mother sounds and child sounds. Mother sounds are simple guttural sounds, and there are five of them, namely a, i, u, e and o.

   • 1902, Hirano, Hidekichi, “第十二章　　母　音 [Chapter 12: Vowels]”, in 國語聲音學 [The Phonetics of the National Language], 國光社, pages 53–54:

     母音は、吾國語音では、唯一なる喉音である。聲門帶で規律ある顫動を受けたる音が、副管部に共鳴せられて、吾人の耳に聞ゆるものを母音と云ふ。母音は、種々の音色を得るために、口腔內に共鳴されるが、決して或る局部に於て、吾等の聽き得られ、感じ得られる樣の摩擦を生ずるが如きことは無い。若し、有つたならば、其は母音では無くて父音である。此の區別法は、極めて重大おる要件である。後のヤ行ワ行が、頗る母音に近い音であるけれども、父音たることを免れないのは是が爲である。

     Boon wa, waga kuni goon de wa, yuiitsu naru kōon de aru. Seimontai de kiritsu aru sendō o uke taru on ga, fukukanbu ni kyōmei serarete, gojin no mimi ni kikoyuru mono o boon to iu. Boon wa, shuju no onshoku o eru tame ni, kōkōnai ni kyōmei sareru ga, kesshite aru kyokubu ni oite, warera no kikierare, kanjierareru yō no masatsu o shōzuru ga gotoki koto wa nai. Moshi, atta nara ba, sore wa boon de wa nakute fuon de aru. Kono kubetsuhō fa, kiwamete jūdai oru yōken de aru. Ato no yagyō wagyō ga, sukoburu boon ni chikai on de aru kere do mo, fuon taru koto o manukarenai no wa kore ga tame de aru.

     Vowels are the only guttural sounds among the sounds of our language. What are known as vowels are sounds that undergo systematic vibrations at the vocal folds, resonate in the vocal tract, and wind up being heard by our ears. A vowel resonates in the oral cavity in order to achieve its diverse tonal quality, but there must be no such thing as friction that can be heard or felt by us at certain places of articulation. Otherwise, it will not be a vowel, but a consonant. This distinction is of utmost importance. Later when we discuss the ya-row and wa-row, which sound very similar to vowels, this point must be noticed in order to explain the fact that they still contain consonants.

3. (phonetics) Synonym of 声門音 (seimon'on, “glottal sound”)