"Consonant" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 xié hé to harmonize / harmony / cooperation / (music) consonant
 fǔ yīn consonant
 hóu yīn guttural sound / (linguistics) glottal (or laryngeal) consonant
 zǐ yīn consonant
 qì huà to vaporize / evaporation / carburetion / 氣|气[qi4] transformation in TCM (i.e. transformation of yin yang vital breath) / unvoicing of voiced consonant
 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])
 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")
 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 chǐ yīn dental consonant
 bí yùn mǔ (of Chinese pronunciation) a vowel followed by a nasal consonant
 biān yīn lateral consonant (phonetics)
 chū shēng the initial consonant (or doubled consonant) of a Korean syllable
 qián bí yīn alveolar nasal / consonant n produced in the nose with the tongue against the alveolar ridge
 sè yīn plosive / stop consonant
 hòu bí yīn velar nasal / consonant ng or ŋ / produced in the nose with the back of the tongue against the soft palate
 shōu wěi yīn the final of a Korean syllable (consonant or consonant cluster at the end of the syllable)
 zhōng shēng the final of a Korean syllable (consonant or consonant cluster at the end of the syllable)
 shé jiān yīn apical consonant (produced with the tip of the tongue, i.e. d or t)
 shuāng chún yīn bilabial consonant (b, p, or m)
 è yín yīn prepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics) / palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
 yín fǔ yīn palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
 ruǎn è yīn (linguistics) velar consonant
 chún yīn labial consonant
齿 chún chǐ yīn labiodental (e.g. the consonant f in standard Chinese)
 yǒu qì yīn aspirated consonant (in phonetics)
 zhuó fǔ yīn voiced consonant (linguistics)
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