夜空

Chinese

		night	emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain
trad. (夜空)		夜	空
simp. ^#(夜空)		夜	空

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yèkōng

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˋ ㄎㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): je⁶ hung¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yèkōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˋ ㄎㄨㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yèkong
  - Wade–Giles: yeh⁴-kʻung¹
  - Yale: yè-kūng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yehkong
  - Palladius: екун (jekun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ⁵¹ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: je⁶ hung¹
  - Yale: yeh hūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: je⁶ hung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yé⁶ hung¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛː²² hʊŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

夜空

night sky

Synonyms

晚空 (wǎnkōng)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
夜	空
よ Grade: 2	そら > ぞら Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

The sora changes to zora as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) よぞら [yóꜜzòrà] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
IPA^(key): [jo̞zo̞ɾa̠]

Noun

夜(よ)空(ぞら) • (yozora)

night sky

References

Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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