Is there any kanji that has a kun’yomi that starts with a voiced consonant?

I noticed this for a while, but I can’t name any kanji that has a kun’yomi that starts with a voiced consonant (g, z, j, d, b) I don’t mean a kanji that has a voiced consonant, but starts with one.

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  1. 出る does, otherwise yeah, I don’t think there’s a lot, although many do become voiced through combination with other terms.

  2. It’s rare. According to the [Tofugu article on rendaku](https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/rendaku/), words native to Japan (the source of kunyomi readings) almost never start with a voiced consonant. Words native to China do, which is one reason onyomi-based words often don’t rendaku; changing the voicing is more likely to change the whole meaning.

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