All languages combined word senses marked with topical category "Chinese phonetics"
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Total 99 word senses
- checked tone (Noun) [English] Synonym of entering tone
- entering tone (Noun) [English] A short, sharp tone found with syllables that end in plosives (usually /-p -t -k -ʔ/).
- erhua (Noun) [English] A phonological process that adds rhotic sounds to syllables in some lects of Chinese.
- erization (Noun) [English] Erhua.
- erizational (Adjective) [English] Relating to erization (the process of undergoing erhua).
- fanqie (Noun) [English] In traditional Chinese lexicography, a method of indicating the pronunciation of a character by using two other characters, each giving part of the pronunciation.
- nhi hóa (Noun) [Vietnamese] erhua
- rime book (Noun) [English] Synonym of rime dictionary
- rime dictionary (Noun) [English] A historical type of Chinese character dictionary that collates characters by rime and tone (pronunciation) rather than by radical. It does not necessarily provide definitions.
- 上 (Character) [Chinese] (Chinese phonetics) rising tone in Chinese phonetics
- 上声 (Noun) [Japanese] the rising tone (one of the 仄声 (sokusei, “oblique tones”) among the 四声 (shisei, “four tones”) of Middle Chinese)
- 上聲 (Noun) [Chinese] rising tone (one of the four tones in Middle Chinese, also a tone in various modern varieties, e.g. tone 3 (/˨˩˦/) in Standard Mandarin (marked with a caron [ ˇ ] in Hanyu Pinyin and bopomofo), tone 3 in Meixian Hakka (/˧˩/), and tone 2 in Xiamen/Taiwanese Hokkien (/˥˧/))
- 仄声 (Noun) [Japanese] an oblique tone (the 上声 (jōshō, “rising tone”), the 去声 (kyoshō, “departing tone”) or the 入声 (nisshō, “entering tone”), contrasting with the 平声 (hyōshō, “level tone”) among the 四声 (shisei, “four tones”) of Middle Chinese)
- 仄聲 (Noun) [Chinese] oblique tone (a category of tones in classical Chinese, consisting of the rising tone (上聲/上声 (shǎngshēng)), the departing tone (去聲/去声 (qùshēng)), and the entering tone (入聲/入声 (rùshēng)).)
- 促聲 (Noun) [Chinese] entering tone (one of the four tones of Middle Chinese)
- 兒化 (Verb) [Chinese] erhua (to undergo erhua; to have the 兒-sound (/ɻ/, /n/, /ŋ/) added to syllables to form diminutives)
- 兒化音 (Noun) [Chinese] erhua; erization (the r-coloring or addition of the 兒 sound (/ɻ/, /n/, /ŋ/) to syllables to form diminutives)
- 兒化韻 (Noun) [Chinese] syllable with erhua
- 入 (Character) [Chinese] Short for 入聲/入声 (rùshēng, “the checked tone”).
- 入声 (Noun) [Japanese] the entering tone (one of the 仄声 (sokusei, “oblique tones”) among the 四声 (shisei, “four tones”) of Middle Chinese)
- 入聲 (Noun) [Chinese] entering tone (one of the four tones of Middle Chinese)
- 全清 (Adjective) [Chinese] of a voiceless unaspirated obstruent
- 全濁 (Adjective) [Chinese] of a voiced obstruent
- 去声 (Noun) [Japanese] the departing tone (one of the 仄声 (sokusei, “oblique tones”) among the 四声 (shisei, “four tones”) of Middle Chinese)
- 去聲 (Noun) [Chinese] departing tone (one of the four tones in Middle Chinese, also a tone in various modern varieties, e.g. tone 4 (/˥˩/) in Standard Mandarin (marked with a grave accent [ ` ] in Hanyu Pinyin and bopomofo) and tone 4 in Meixian Hakka (/˥˧/))
- 反切 (Noun) [Chinese] fanqie (a method of indicating the pronunciation of a character by using two other characters, each giving part of the pronunciation)
- 反切 (Noun) [Japanese] fanqie
- 反語 (Noun) [Chinese] fanqie
- 叶韻 (Verb) [Chinese] to amend the pronunciation of a character in a rhyming couplet that is perceived as not rhyming (i.e. that which is the result of phonological change)
- 合 (Character) [Chinese] Short for 合口 (hékǒu, “closed-mouthed”).
- 合口 (Noun) [Chinese] Short for 合口呼 (hékǒuhū, “close-mouth sounds”).
- 合口呼 (Noun) [Chinese] class of finals with /u/ (u in Pinyin, except when written after j, q, x, and y) as their medial or nucleus
- 呼 (Character) [Chinese] medial; in Middle Chinese: being open-mouthed (開口/开口) or closed-mouthed (合口), also called 開合/开合); or, for modern Chinese: one of four medials (四呼)
- 喉音 (Noun) [Chinese] a guttural onset consonant, any of the group of consonants represented by the Middle Chinese pronunciation the following 字母 (zìmǔ): 影 (/ʔ/), 曉/晓 (/h/ or /x/), 匣 (/ɦ/) and 喻 (/j/)
- 四呼 (Noun) [Chinese] the traditional classification of finals based on the medial
- 四声 (Noun) [Japanese] the four tones
- 四等 (Noun) [Chinese] Synonym of 四呼 (sìhū)
- 四等 (Noun) [Chinese] the "four divisions" of a rime table
- 四等 (Noun) [Chinese] the fourth division of a rime table
- 四聲 (Noun) [Chinese] the four tones of Middle Chinese (traditional tone classes also used for modern varieties of Chinese)
- 塞尾韻 (Noun) [Chinese] syllable with a stop coda
- 声調 (Noun) [Japanese] a Chinese character tone
- 字母 (Noun) [Chinese] character representing an initial consonant
- 小韻 (Noun) [Chinese] subset of a rhyme group which collects all characters sharing the same initial, final and tone (i.e. homophones)
- 尖團 (Noun) [Chinese] (Chinese phonetics) the alveolar ("sharp") and alveolo-palatal ("round") series consonants (z /t͡s/, c /t͡sʰ/, s /s/ before /i/ or /y/; and j /t͡ɕ/, q /t͡ɕʰ/, x /ɕ/ in Mandarin)
- 尖團合流 (Noun) [Chinese] the merger between the alveolar consonants and the alveolo-palatal consonants
- 尖團音 (Noun) [Chinese] the alveolar and alveolo-palatal series consonants (z /t͡s/, c /t͡sʰ/, s /s/; and j /t͡ɕ/, q /t͡ɕʰ/, x /ɕ/ in Mandarin)
- 平 (Character) [Chinese] level tone (one of the four tones in Middle Chinese)
- 平上去入 (Noun) [Chinese] the four tones of Middle Chinese: level, rising, departing and checked
- 平上去入 (Noun) [Japanese] the four tones of Middle Chinese:; 平声 (hyōshō, “level tone”)
- 平上去入 (Noun) [Japanese] the four tones of Middle Chinese:; 上声 (jōshō, “rising tone”)
- 平上去入 (Noun) [Japanese] the four tones of Middle Chinese:; 去声 (kyoshō, “departing tone”)
- 平上去入 (Noun) [Japanese] the four tones of Middle Chinese:; 入声 (nisshō, “checked tone”)
- 平声 (Noun) [Japanese] the level tone (contrasting with the 仄声 (sokusei, “oblique tones”) among the 四声 (shisei, “four tones”) of Middle Chinese)
- 平翹音 (Noun) [Chinese] the alveolar and retroflex series consonants (z /t͡s/, c /t͡sʰ/, s /s/; and zh /ʈ͡ʂ/, ch /ʈ͡ʂʰ/, sh /ʂ/ in Mandarin)
- 平聲 (Noun) [Chinese] level tone (one of the four tones in Middle Chinese)
- 撮口呼 (Noun) [Chinese] class of finals with /y/ (ü in Pinyin, written as u after j, q, x, and y) as their medial or nucleus
- 攝 (Character) [Chinese] rhyme group; rhyme class (one of 16 sets of 韻 in Middle Chinese)
- 次清 (Adjective) [Chinese] of a voiceless aspirated obstruent
- 次濁 (Adjective) [Chinese] of a sonorant
- 牙音 (Noun) [Chinese] velar consonant; any of the group of consonants represented by the Middle Chinese pronunciation the following 字母 (zìmǔ): 見/见 (/k/), 溪 (/kʰ/), 群 (/ɡ/) and 疑 (/ŋ/)
- 等 (Character) [Chinese] one of the "divisions" of a rime table, encoding some phonological distinction; see Middle Chinese finals on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- 等韻圖 (Noun) [Chinese] rime table
- 聲 (Character) [Chinese] initial
- 舌上音 (Noun) [Chinese] any of the group of consonants represented by the Middle Chinese pronunciation the following 字母 (zìmǔ): 知 (/ʈ/), 徹/彻 (/ʈʰ/), 澄 (/ʈʰ/) and 娘 (/ɳ/)
- 舌頭音 (Noun) [Chinese] alveolar consonant
- 舒聲 (Noun) [Chinese] syllable that does not end in a stop consonant
- 輕脣音 (Noun) [Chinese] labiodental
- 重紐 (Noun) [Chinese] chongniu, Middle Chinese rimes of unclear phonological distinction
- 重脣音 (Noun) [Chinese] bilabial
- 開 (Character) [Chinese] Short for 開口/开口 (kāikǒu, “open-mouthed”).
- 開口 (Noun) [Chinese] Short for 開口呼/开口呼 (kāikǒuhū, “open-mouth sounds”).
- 開口呼 (Noun) [Chinese] class of finals that do not have a medial or do not have /i/, /u/, or /y/ as their nucleus
- 開合 (Noun) [Chinese] 開口/开口 (kāikǒu, “open-mouthed”) and 合口 (hékǒu, “closed-mouthed”); quality of being open-mouthed or closed-mouthed; medial
- 陰上 (Noun) [Chinese] (linguistics) dark rising tone
- 陰入 (Noun) [Chinese] (linguistics) dark checked tone (corresponds to tone 4 in Min Nan)
- 陰去 (Noun) [Chinese] (linguistics) dark departing tone (corresponds to tone 3 in Min Nan)
- 陰平 (Noun) [Chinese] (phonology) dark level tone, a tone in various modern Chinese varieties, generally corresponding to the level tone and voiceless onset in Middle Chinese, e.g. tone 1 (/˥/) in Standard Mandarin (marked in Hanyu Pinyin with a macron [ ¯ ] and usually left unmarked in bopomofo), tone 1 (/˥/) in Guangzhou Cantonese, tone 1 (/˦/) in Meixian Hakka, tone 1 (/˦/) in Xiamen/Taiwanese Hokkien (unmarked in P…
- 陽上 (Noun) [Chinese] (linguistics) light rising tone
- 陽入 (Noun) [Chinese] (linguistics) light checked tone (corresponds to tone 8 in Min Nan)
- 陽去 (Noun) [Chinese] (linguistics) light departing tone (corresponds to tone 7 in Min Nan)
- 音韻地位 (Noun) [Chinese] A systematic six-character description of a syllable's Middle Chinese pronunciation: rhyme group (攝/摄 (shè)), open-mouthed or closed-mouthed (呼 (hū)), division (等 (děng)), tone (聲調/声调 (shēngdiào)), rime (韻母/韵母 (yùnmǔ)), and initial (聲母/声母 (shēngmǔ)).
- 韻圖 (Noun) [Chinese] rime table
- 韻書 (Noun) [Chinese] rime dictionary
- 鼻尾韻 (Noun) [Chinese] syllable with a nasal coda
- 齊齒呼 (Noun) [Chinese] class of finals with /i/ (i in Pinyin, except when written after zh, ch, sh, r, z, c, and s) as their medial or nucleus
- 거성 (Noun) [Korean] departing tone (one of the four tones in Middle Chinese)
- 반절 (Noun) [Korean] fanqie
- 상성 (Noun) [Korean] rising tone (one of the four tones in Middle Chinese)
- 입성 (Noun) [Korean] entering tone (one of the four tones in Middle Chinese)
- 평성 (Noun) [Korean] level tone (one of the four tones in Middle Chinese)
- ꜀ (Symbol) [Translingual] The modifier letter for the Chinese tone yīnpíng.
- ꜁ (Symbol) [Translingual] The modifier letter for the Chinese tone yángpíng.
- ꜂ (Symbol) [Translingual] The modifier letter for the Chinese tone yīnshǎng.
- ꜃ (Symbol) [Translingual] The modifier letter for the Chinese tone yángshǎng.
- ꜄ (Symbol) [Translingual] The modifier letter for the Chinese tone yīnqù.
- ꜅ (Symbol) [Translingual] The modifier letter for the Chinese tone yángqù.
- ꜆ (Symbol) [Translingual] The modifier letter for the Chinese tone yīnrù.
- ꜇ (Symbol) [Translingual] The modifier letter for the Chinese tone yángrù.
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