syllabication; syllabification; hyphenation
Linguistic term for dividing words into syllables or hyphenating at line breaks. Used in phonology and typesetting contexts.
English syllabification rules are more complex than Japanese ones.
In this dictionary, syllabication is shown for headwords.
Compound of 分 (ぶん, 'divide') and 綴 (てつ, 'spell' or 'bind'), referring to the division of spelling into syllables.