How many ons does さとる have?


I'm a beginner at Japanese, and I've thought I'd learn the Hiragana alphabet
by learning the Japanese words that are most important to me.

Naturally, I started with the word "enlightenment", for which one choice seems
to be "さとる". Now the Wikipedia article about ons uses a full stop in order to
denote the boundaries between the ons. If we transfer this principle to

<https://jisho.org/search/%E6%82%9F%20%23kanji>

this would mean that さ and と belong to the same on, which seems absurd.

Does this mean that the pronunciation is "storu"? I'd be glad to be
enlightened in this regard!




It seems you're referring to
[this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_\(Japanese_prosody\)) Wikipedia
article regarding 'Ons' (I have personally never heard of this).

Japanese pronunciation is usually broken up into 'moras', with each kana in a
word being pronounced for the same length of time (There are a few exceptions
to this such as きゃ、しょ etc..).

The dot notation on Jisho.org indicates where the 送り仮名 starts.

悟る is pronounced さとる。 You can hear some native speakers saying it
[here](https://sentencesearch.neocities.org/#%E6%82%9F%E3%82%8B).

