れんだく

  1. noun (common) (futsuumeishi), noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru, intransitive verb

    rendaku, sequential voicing, in Japanese, an unvoiced sound becoming voiced when it is the initial consonant of the non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word
    e.g. はな (花) + ひ (火) → はなび (花火)