# 清音
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): qīngyīn
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥ ㄧㄣ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): cing$^1$ jam$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: qīngyīn
*** Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥ ㄧㄣ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cingyin
*** Wade–Giles: chʻing$^1$-yin$^1$
*** Yale: chīng-yīn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chingin
*** Palladius: цинъинь (cinʺinʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ in⁵⁵/
*** Homophones: [Show/Hide]$^{edit}$清音 輕音／轻音
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: cing$^1$ jam$^1$
*** Yale: chīng yām
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tsing$^1$ jam$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: qing$^1$ yem$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ jɐm⁵⁵/

### Noun

清音
* (phonetics) voiceless sound
* clear tone, crystalline sound

#### Antonyms

* 濁音／浊音 (zhuóyīn)

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 清 | 音 |
| せい Grade: 4 | おん Grade: 1 |
| kan'on | goon |
* Alternative spelling
* 淸音 (kyūjitai)

### Etymology

Literary Chinese 清音 (qīngyīn, literally “clear sound”)

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) せーおん [séꜜèòǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
* (Tokyo) せーおん [sèéóń] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [se̞ːõ̞ɴ]

### Noun

清(せい)音(おん) • (seion)
* (traditional Chinese phonology) a voiceless and unaspirated onset obstruent, including the glottal stop
* (traditional Japanese phonology) any mora listed on the 五十音図 (gojūonzu, literally “chart of the fifty sounds”), without a voiced onset obstruent or /p/
    Hyponyms: 子音, 母音, 半母音
** 1897 March, “〇濁音 [〇Muddy Sounds]”, in 日本文典 [A Japanese Grammar], 中等學科敎授法硏究會:五十音中、加・佐・多・波の四行に、濁れる音あり。淸音文字の肩に、゛點を附して、その標とせり。Gojūonchū, ka sa ta ha no shigyō ni, nigoreru on ari. Seion moji no kata ni, ゛ ten o fushite, sono shirushi to seri.Among the fifty sounds, those of the ka, sa, ta and ha-rows can be muddied up. They are written by attaching the dots ゛ on the shoulders of the letters for the clear sounds.
** 1897 March, “〇半濁音 [〇Semi-Muddy Sounds]”, in 日本文典 [A Japanese Grammar], 中等學科敎授法硏究會:五十音中、波行に、半濁の音あり。淸音文字の肩に゜點を附して、その標とせり。Gojūonchū, hagyō ni, handaku no on ari. Seion moji no kata ni, ゜ ten o fushite, sono shirushi to seri.Among the fifty sounds, those of the ha-row can be partially muddied up. They are written by attaching the dot ゜ on the shoulders of the letters for the clear sounds.
** 1902, Hirano, Hidekichi, “第十九章　　淸音濁音半濁音 [Chapter 19: Clear Sounds, Muddy Sounds and Semi-Muddy Sounds]”, in 國語聲音學 [The Phonetics of the National Language], 國光社, page 152:濁音がある故に、之に對して淸音をも作らねばならず、半濁音（次淸音）と云ふものもあることになる。 ぱ　ぴ　ぷ　ぺ　ぽ の一行五音の半濁音（一名次淸音）として、アカサタナハマヤラワ十行五十音が淸音と云はれて居る。Dakuon ga aru yue ni, kore ni taishite seion o mo tsukarane ba narazu, handakuon (jiseion) to iu mono mo aru koto ni naru. pa pi pu pe po no ichigyō goon no handakuon (ichimei jiseion) to shite, a ka sa ta na ha ma ya ra wa jūgyō gojūon ga seion to iwarete iru.Since there are muddy sounds, it follows that there must also be the opposite, ‘clear sounds’, and additionally what are known as ‘semi-muddy sounds’ (‘quasi-clear sounds’). These five sounds, arranged in one row, are known as ‘semi-muddy sounds’ (i.e. ‘quasi-clear sounds’): pa pi pu pe po Then, the fifty sounds arranged in ten rows, a, ka, sa, ta, na, ha, ma, ya, ra and wa, are called ‘clear sounds’.
Table of unvoiced hiragana :
| あ | い | う | え | お |
| あ | い | う | え | お |
| か | き | く | け | こ |
| さ | し | す | せ | そ |
| た | ち | つ | て | と |
| な | に | ぬ | ね | の |
| は | ひ | ふ | へ | ほ |
| ま | み | む | め | も |
| や | | ゆ | | よ |
| ら | り | る | れ | ろ |
| わ | ゐ | | ゑ | を |

#### Usage notes

* 清音 (seion) include the five 母音 (boon) of the あ行 (agyō, “a-row”) and the forty-three 子音 (shion) of the other rows, but not 濁音 (dakuon) or 半濁音 (handakuon).
* 熟音 (jukuon) include the forty-three 子音 (shion), 濁音 (dakuon) and 半濁音 (handakuon), but not 母音 (boon).

### See also

* 濁(だく)音(おん) (dakuon)
* 半(はん)濁(だく)音(おん) (handakuon)