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2 Replies ・ Started by toby at 2023-10-30 12:07:45 UTC ・ Last reply by doraneko at 2023-11-01 23:29:03 UTC
This is a discussion about 王

Also pronounced わう

Also pronounced わう.

https://tatoeba.org/sentences/show/10142887

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Unclepaul at 2023-11-01 20:22:38 UTC

わう is a historical pronunciation, from Middle Chinese hjwang. It is not common in modern Japanese.

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doraneko at 2023-11-01 23:29:03 UTC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_kana_orthography

The spelling わう was used until 1946. The pronunciation わう probably hasn't been used for hundreds of years.

This is the same reason the particles は, へ, and を are pronounced わ, え, and お. Spelling isn't always the same as pronunciation.

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