"neutral tone" meaning in All languages combined

See neutral tone on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: neutral tones [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} neutral tone (plural neutral tones)
  1. (Chinese phonetics) The lack of one of the four primary phonetic tones of Chinese, sometimes viewed as a tone in its own right, and unmarked in Hanyu Pinyin. Tags: Chinese Translations (Translations): нулев тон (nulev ton) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 輕聲 /轻声 (qīngshēng) (Chinese), tom neutro [masculine] (Portuguese)

Inflected forms

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