音おん引びき

noun

looking up by reading

Refers to searching for a word or kanji in a dictionary by its pronunciation, as opposed to by radical or stroke count. Common in contexts like 音引き辞書 or 音引き検索.

• この辞じ書しょは音おん引びきで調しらべられます。

  You can look up words in this dictionary by their reading.

noun

prolonged sound mark

Colloquial term for the long vowel mark (ー) used in katakana, and sometimes for the hiragana equivalent. More formally called 長音符 (ちょうおんぷ).

See also: 長音符 (ちょうおんぷ)

• カタカナの音おん引びきは「ー」です。

  The katakana prolonged sound mark is 'ー'.