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Definition of Rendaku
1. Noun. (linguistics) In the Japanese language, a phenomenon which governs the voicing of the initial consonant of the non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word. An example is ?? (????, tokidoki), where the second element "-toki" becomes "-doki" and ??? (????, origami) where the word ? (??, kami; paper) becomes "gami". ¹
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