そくおん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of そくおん – see the following entry.

【促音】 [noun] (Japanese phonology and phonetics) a moraic obstruent (the first half of a Japanese geminate obstruent, such as the first [k] in [kk], usually phonologically noted as /Q/, bearing one mora as the coda of a syllable) [noun] (Japanese orthography) the small kana っ/ッ used to spell a moraic obstruent

(This term, そくおん, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)