| 协和 | xié hé | to harmonize / harmony / cooperation / (music) consonant |   |
| 辅音 | fǔ yīn | consonant | |
| 喉音 | hóu yīn | guttural sound / (linguistics) glottal (or laryngeal) consonant | |
| 子音 | zǐ yīn | consonant | |
| 气化 | qì huà | to vaporize / evaporation / carburetion / 氣|气[qi4] transformation in TCM (i.e. transformation of yin yang vital breath) / unvoicing of voiced consonant | |
| 声母 | shēng mǔ | the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable / the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component 青[qing1] in 清[qing1]) | |
| 韵母 | yùn mǔ | the final of a Chinese syllable (the component of a syllable remaining after removal of the initial consonant, if any, and the tone, e.g. the final of "niáng" is "iang") | |
| 反切 | fǎn qiè | traditional system expressing the phonetic value of a Chinese character using two other characters, the first for the initial consonant, the second for the rhyme and tone | |
| 齿音 | chǐ yīn | dental consonant | |
| 鼻韵母 | bí yùn mǔ | (of Chinese pronunciation) a vowel followed by a nasal consonant | |
| 边音 | biān yīn | lateral consonant (phonetics) | |
| 初声 | chū shēng | the initial consonant (or doubled consonant) of a Korean syllable | |
| 前鼻音 | qián bí yīn | alveolar nasal / consonant n produced in the nose with the tongue against the alveolar ridge | |
| 后鼻音 | hòu bí yīn | velar nasal / consonant ng or ŋ / produced in the nose with the back of the tongue against the soft palate | |
| 收尾音 | shōu wěi yīn | the final of a Korean syllable (consonant or consonant cluster at the end of the syllable) | |
| 终声 | zhōng shēng | the final of a Korean syllable (consonant or consonant cluster at the end of the syllable) | |
| 舌尖音 | shé jiān yīn | apical consonant (produced with the tip of the tongue, i.e. d or t) | |
| 双唇音 | shuāng chún yīn | bilabial consonant (b, p, or m) | |
| 颚龈音 | è yín yīn | prepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics) / palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics) | |
| 龈辅音 | yín fǔ yīn | palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics) | |
| 软腭音 | ruǎn è yīn | (linguistics) velar consonant | |
| 唇音 | chún yīn | labial consonant | |
| 唇齿音 | chún chǐ yīn | labiodental (e.g. the consonant f in standard Chinese) | |
| 有气音 | yǒu qì yīn | aspirated consonant (in phonetics) | |
| 浊辅音 | zhuó fǔ yīn | voiced consonant (linguistics) | |
