撥はつ音おん

noun

syllabic nasal; moraic nasal

Linguistic term for the Japanese moraic nasal phoneme, written in kana as ん or ン. It occupies one mora and can appear only in syllable-final position.

• 日本にほん語ごの「ん」は撥はつ音おんと呼よばれる。

  The Japanese 'ん' is called a syllabic nasal.

• 撥はつ音おんは単たん独どくで一ひとつの拍はくを形けい成せいする。

  The syllabic nasal forms one mora by itself.