1. contracted sound; palatalised sound (e.g. Japanese morae with small kana); palatalized soundLinguistics, e.g. きゃ
2. Yōonis a feature of the Japanese language in which a mora is formed with an added [j] sound. Yōon are represented in hiragana using a kana ending in i, such as き (ki), plus a smaller-than-usual version of one of the three y kana, ya, yu or yo. For example kyō, "today", is written きょう, using a small version of the yo kana, よ. Contrast this with kiyō, "skillful", which is written きよう, with a full-sized yo kana.
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