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I've seen the reading of 株式会社 written both with rendaku and without. I can't
tell whether the version without rendaku is simply a typo, or a true variant
of the word.
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Is 株式会社 read as かぶしきがいしゃ or かぶしきかいしゃ?
There are entries from [9 dictionaries on
kotobank.jp](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%A0%AA%E5%BC%8F%E4%BC%9A%E7%A4%BE-2416).
Three give no explicit reading, three say かぶしき **が** いしゃ, and three say かぶしき
**か** いしゃ. Could it be any more inconclusive?

I think I always hear it with _rendaku_ , and two of the nine dictionary
entries are from 大辞林 and 大辞泉, two popular monolingual dictionaries. These two
may not be entirely independent indicators, but I would go with かぶしき **が**
いしゃ, with _rendaku_. Still, I wouldn't go as far as calling かぶしきかいしゃ a typo.

(As with all "reading" questions, it seems particularly hard to find any
corpus data, because the reading is never spelled out. _Cf._ 今日 こんじつ こんにち きょう
or 私 わたくし わたし etc.)
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株式会社 is pronounced both _kabushiki kaisha_ and _kabushiki gaisha_. But it is
predominantly pronounced _kabushiki **g** aisha_ today in Japan. By the same
token, more people call 投資信託会社 (investment trust company) _tōshi shintaku
gaisha_ instead of _tōshi shintaku kaisha_.

When you voice 株式 and 会社 separately, you should pronounce them _kabushiki_ and
_kaisha_ individually.

We call the sounds of か行（syllabic line）— か、き、く、け、こ ( _ka, ki, ku, ke, ko_ ) —
清音 (literally "clear sounds"), and its voiced (vowel and consonant) line —
が、ぎ、ぐ、げ、ご ( _ga, gi, gu, ge, go_ ) — 濁音 (literally "unclear sounds"). We don't
use 濁音 for 株式 on its own.
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Although **[this dictionary](http://www.kyj-
kyj.info/%E6%A0%AA%E5%BC%8F%E4%BC%9A%E7%A4%BE.htm)** says 株式会社 as カブシキ・カイシャ，I
have never ever met anyone said in my enrire career sombody in a company said
"Our company's name is カブシキ・カイシャ XXXXXX，or XXXXX カブシキ・カイシャ" ( Sometimes, in
business mannars, whether the name of the company should be placed before
カブシキ・ガイシャ or after do matter. ( For example, when you are trying to send
invoices to them. ) And it is really hard to say, ( as an example,
カブシキ・カイシャ・トヨタジドウシャ ( People of Toyota could think of you a strange guy, in my
personal guess unless you are not a native Japanese. ))

It is commonly held in the business world, I am enough certain that people
would not call a company XXXXXX カブシキ・カイシャ or カブシキ・カイシャ XXXXXX.
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Although かぶしき **か** いしゃ is not wrong, かぶしき **が** いしゃ is more common in recent
years, as explained in other answers.

When the word 会社 follows a noun and forms a compound noun, it's usually read
**が** いしゃ. For example,

> 株式会社 かぶしき **が** いしゃ
>
> 合名会社 ごうめい **が** いしゃ
>
> 合資会社 ごうし **が** いしゃ
>
> 合同会社 ごうどう **が** いしゃ
>
> 有限会社 ゆうげん **が** いしゃ
>
> 保険会社 ほけん **が** いしゃ
>
> 食品会社 しょくひん **が** いしゃ
>
> 格安航空会社 かくやすこうくう **が** いしゃ
>
> 製造会社 せいぞう **が** いしゃ
>
> 配給会社 はいきゅう **が** いしゃ
>
> 制作会社／製作会社 せいさく **が** いしゃ
>
> 運営会社 うんえい **が** いしゃ
>
> 幽霊会社 ゆうれい **が** いしゃ
>
> 親会社 おや **が** いしゃ
>
> 子会社 こ **が** いしゃ
>
> 大会社 だい **が** いしゃ etc.

However, there are a few exceptions.

> 一人会社 いちにん **か** いしゃ
>
> 人的会社 じんてき **か** いしゃ
>
> 物的会社 ぶってき **か** いしゃ etc.
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