"Cadence" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 节奏 | jié zòu | rhythm / tempo / musical pulse / cadence / beat |   |
| 韵律 | yùn lu:4 | cadence / rhythm / rhyme scheme / meter (in verse) / (linguistics) prosody | |
| 调子 | diào zi | tune / melody / tuning / cadence / intonation / (speech) tone | |
| 顿挫 | dùn cuò | a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes / a cadence / punctuated by a transition / with syncopated cadence (brush stroke in painting) | |
| 抑扬 | yì yáng | modulation (rising and falling pitch) / intonation / a cadence / to rise and fall (of a body floating in water) | |
| 顿挫抑扬 | dùn cuò yì yáng | cadence / modulation | |
| 流韵 | liú yùn | musical sound / flowing rhythm (of poetry) / cadence | |
