Could someone help me with this word (や)やかん please?


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The sentence in question is from line 8:

> おかしなことですが、実は、日本へきて受けたカルチャーショックの一つは、子供のサンダル **ややかん** のピーピーなる音だったんです。

My attempt at translation:

> It is a weird thing but, well, concerning one culture shock I received
> coming to Japan, it was "peep peep" ringing sound of the sandals of the
> children.

In my translation, I simply left out ややかん since I have no idea what it could
mean.

I couldn't find anything for ややかん, since I guess the first や is the
enumerative particle. However やかん didn't render any useful results on jisho as
well, at least not from my perspective on the full sentence. So maybe someone
could solve this riddle for me?^^




You are correct about や . Looking at jisho.org, it gave me the definition I
was looking for, so I'm not sure you looked hard enough.

やかん is a kettle, and the "peeping" sounds are the kettle whistling.

