演歌

Chinese

		to develop; to evolve; to practise to develop; to evolve; to practise; to perform; to play; to act	song
simp. and trad. (演歌)		演	歌

Etymology

From Japanese 演(えん)歌(か) (enka).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yǎngē

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˇ ㄍㄜ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jin² go¹
Min Nan (Hokkien, POJ): ián-koa / iàn-gah

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yǎngē
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ ㄍㄜ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yǎnge
  - Wade–Giles: yen³-ko¹
  - Yale: yǎn-gē
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeange
  - Palladius: яньгэ (janʹgɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ kɤ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: jin² go¹
  - Yale: yín gō
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jin² go¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yin² go¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn³⁵ kɔː⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ián-koa
  - Tâi-lô: ián-kua
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iefnkoaf
  - IPA (Taipei): /iɛn⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kua⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɛn⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kua⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iàn-gah
  - Tâi-lô: iàn-gah
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iern'gaq
  - IPA (Taipei): /iɛn¹¹⁻⁵³ ɡaʔ³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɛn²¹⁻⁴¹ ɡaʔ³²/

Note: iàn-gah - from Japanese.

Noun

演歌

enka (Classifier: 條／条 mn)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
演	歌
えん Grade: 5	か Grade: 2
on’yomi

Alternative forms

艶歌

Etymology

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Pronunciation

(Tokyo) えんか [éꜜǹkà] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
IPA^(key): [ẽ̞ŋka̠]

Noun

演(えん)歌(か) • (enka)

Enka, a genre of melodramatic Japanese music.

References

2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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