しやくおん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しやくおん – see the following entry.
借音しゃくおん
[noun] the use of 万葉仮名 (man'yōgana) to spell sounds in Old Japanese, irrespective of the kanji's meaning
(This term, しやくおん (syakuon), is a historical kana spelling of the above term.)