# rendaku

> Japanese morphophonology phenomenon in which the initial consonant of a non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word becomes voiced, e.g. 人 (hito) + 人 (hito) → 人々 (hitobito)

**Wikidata**: [Q1192464](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1192464)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendaku)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/rendaku


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013