直音 ちょくおん Meanings Noun single-kana sound Kanji 直 straight. Read as チョク. 音 sound. Read as オン. Words containing 直音 直音化 (ちょくおんか) depalatalization (e.g. dropping small kana in borrowing foreign words into Japanese) 直音表記 (ちょくおんひょうき) writing palatalized sounds with a single kana character Word lists Linguistics Jinuma: Japanese Dictionary · Word lists