Chinese word senses marked with topical category "Chinese phonetics"

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Total 67 word senses

• 上 (Character) (Chinese phonetics) rising tone in Chinese phonetics
• 上聲 (Noun) 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 (/˥˧/))
• 仄聲 (Noun) 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) entering tone (one of the four tones of Middle Chinese)
• 兒化 (Verb) erhua (to undergo erhua; to have the 兒-sound (/ɻ/, /n/, /ŋ/) added to syllables to form diminutives)
• 兒化音 (Noun) erhua; erization (the r-coloring or addition of the 兒 sound (/ɻ/, /n/, /ŋ/) to syllables to form diminutives)
• 兒化韻 (Noun) syllable with erhua
• 入 (Character) Short for 入聲／入声 (rùshēng, “the checked tone”).
• 入聲 (Noun) entering tone (one of the four tones of Middle Chinese)
• 全清 (Adjective) of a voiceless unaspirated obstruent
• 全濁 (Adjective) of a voiced obstruent
• 切韻 (Proper name) Qieyun (Chinese rhyme dictionary)
• 去聲 (Noun) 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) fanqie (a method of indicating the pronunciation of a character by using two other characters, each giving part of the pronunciation)
• 反語 (Noun) fanqie
• 叶韻 (Verb) 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) Short for 合口 (hékǒu, “closed-mouthed”).
• 合口 (Noun) Short for 合口呼 (hékǒuhū, “close-mouth sounds”).
• 合口呼 (Noun) class of finals with /u/ (u in Pinyin, except when written after j, q, x, and y) as their medial or nucleus
• 呼 (Character) 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) 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) the traditional classification of finals based on the medial
• 四等 (Noun) Synonym of 四呼 (sìhū)
• 四等 (Noun) the "four divisions" of a rime table
• 四等 (Noun) the fourth division of a rime table
• 四聲 (Noun) the four tones of Middle Chinese (traditional tone classes also used for modern varieties of Chinese)
• 塞尾韻 (Noun) syllable with a stop coda
• 字母 (Noun) character representing an initial consonant
• 小韻 (Noun) subset of a rhyme group which collects all characters sharing the same initial, final and tone (i.e. homophones)
• 尖團 (Noun) (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) the merger between the alveolar consonants and the alveolo-palatal consonants
• 尖團音 (Noun) the alveolar and alveolo-palatal series consonants (z /t͡s/, c /t͡sʰ/, s /s/; and j /t͡ɕ/, q /t͡ɕʰ/, x /ɕ/ in Mandarin)
• 平 (Character) level tone (one of the four tones in Middle Chinese)
• 平上去入 (Noun) the four tones of Middle Chinese: level, rising, departing and checked
• 平翹音 (Noun) the alveolar and retroflex series consonants (z /t͡s/, c /t͡sʰ/, s /s/; and zh /ʈ͡ʂ/, ch /ʈ͡ʂʰ/, sh /ʂ/ in Mandarin)
• 平聲 (Noun) level tone (one of the four tones in Middle Chinese)
• 撮口呼 (Noun) class of finals with /y/ (ü in Pinyin, written as u after j, q, x, and y) as their medial or nucleus
• 攝 (Character) rhyme group; rhyme class (one of 16 sets of 韻 in Middle Chinese)
• 次清 (Adjective) of a voiceless aspirated obstruent
• 次濁 (Adjective) of a sonorant
• 正齒音 (Noun) any of the group of consonants represented by the Middle Chinese pronunciation the following 字母 (zìmǔ): 照 (/tʃ/), 穿 (/tʃʰ/), 床 (/dʒ/), 審／审 (/ʃ/) and 禪／禅 (/ʒ/)
• 牙音 (Noun) 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) one of the "divisions" of a rime table, encoding some phonological distinction; see Middle Chinese finals on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 等韻圖 (Noun) rime table
• 聲 (Character) initial
• 舌上音 (Noun) 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) alveolar consonant
• 舒聲 (Noun) syllable that does not end in a stop consonant
• 輕脣音 (Noun) labiodental
• 重紐 (Noun) chongniu, Middle Chinese rimes of unclear phonological distinction
• 重脣音 (Noun) bilabial
• 開 (Character) Short for 開口／开口 (kāikǒu, “open-mouthed”).
• 開口 (Noun) Short for 開口呼／开口呼 (kāikǒuhū, “open-mouth sounds”).
• 開口呼 (Noun) class of finals that do not have a medial or do not have /i/, /u/, or /y/ as their nucleus
• 開合 (Noun) 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) (linguistics) dark rising tone
• 陰入 (Noun) (linguistics) dark checked tone (corresponds to tone 4 in Min Nan)
• 陰去 (Noun) (linguistics) dark departing tone (corresponds to tone 3 in Min Nan)
• 陰平 (Noun) (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) (linguistics) light rising tone
• 陽入 (Noun) (linguistics) light checked tone (corresponds to tone 8 in Min Nan)
• 陽去 (Noun) (linguistics) light departing tone (corresponds to tone 7 in Min Nan)
• 音韻地位 (Noun) 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) rime table
• 韻書 (Noun) rime dictionary
• 鼻尾韻 (Noun) syllable with a nasal coda
• 齊齒呼 (Noun) 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

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