noun
speech sound; phoneme; sound of a word
Linguistic term referring to the sounds that make up spoken words, including individual phonemes and the overall acoustic form of a word.
日本語の語音体系は比較的単純だ。
The sound system of Japanese is relatively simple.
この単語の語音を正確に発音するのは難しい。
It is difficult to pronounce the sounds of this word accurately.