First opened Saturday, January 20, 2007
五十音
ごじゅうおん
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the Japanese syllabary
Gojūon is 五十 (gojū, “fifty”) plus 音 (-on, “sound”).
Taken apart
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In a sentence
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “From 五十(ごじゅう) (gojū, “fifty”) + 音(おん) (-on, “sound”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 五十音 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.