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  2. Japanese sound symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese language has a large inventory of sound symbolic or mimetic words, known in linguistics as ideophones. [1] [2] Such words are found in written as well as spoken Japanese. [3] Known popularly as onomatopoeia, these words do not just imitate sounds but also cover a much wider range of meanings; [1] indeed, many sound-symbolic words ...

  3. Help:IPA/Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Help. : IPA/Japanese. This is the for transcriptions of Japanese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Japanese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any ...

  4. Diplopia - Wikipedia

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    Diplopia. Diplopia. Other names. Double vision. One way a person might experience double vision. Specialty. Neurology, ophthalmology. Diplopia is the simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be displaced horizontally or vertically in relation to each other. [ 1] Also called double vision, it is a loss of visual focus ...

  5. Honne and tatemae - Wikipedia

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    and. tatemae. In Japan, honne and tatemae are Japanese terms relating to a person's feelings and outward behaviors. [ 1] Honne refers to a person's true feelings and desires ( 本音, hon'ne, "true sound"), and tatemae refers contrastingly to the behavior and opinions one displays in public ( 建前, tatemae, "built in front", "façade").

  6. Japanese pitch accent - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese this accent is called 尾高 odaka ("tail-high"). If the word does not have an accent, the pitch rises from a low starting point on the first mora or two, and then levels out in the middle of the speaker's range, without ever reaching the high tone of an accented mora. In Japanese this accent is named "flat" (平板 heiban).

  7. Rei (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Rei (given name) Rei is both a Japanese given name and a Hebrew given name. In Japanese it could have different meanings depending on the used kanji and can be used for (or by) either gender. In Hebrew, the name Rei (רעי Re`eeY) originates in biblical texts which mean "my shepherd; my companion; my friend".

  8. Japanese phonology - Wikipedia

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    If you have trouble playing the files, see Wikipedia Media help. Japanese phonology is the system of sounds used in the pronunciation of the Japanese language. Unless otherwise noted, this article describes the standard variety of Japanese based on the Tokyo dialect . There is no overall consensus on the number of contrastive sounds ( phonemes ...

  9. Tsu (kana) - Wikipedia

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    Tsu ( hiragana: つ, katakana: ツ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both are phonemically /tɯ/, reflected in the Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki Romanization tu, although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is [t͡sɯᵝ] ⓘ, reflected in the Hepburn romanization tsu . The small kana っ/ッ, known ...