"Phonetics" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 语音学 | yǔ yīn xué | phonetics |  |
| 声韵学 | shēng yùn xué | phonetics |  |
| 五音 | wǔ yīn | five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la / five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音[hou2 yin1], 牙音[ya2 yin1], 舌音[she2 yin1], 齒音|齿音[chi3 yin1], 唇音[chun2 yin1] | |
| 音韵学 | yīn yùn xué | Chinese phonetics (concerned also with rhyme in poetry) | |
| 元音和谐 | yuán yīn hé xié | vowel harmony (in phonetics of Altaic languages) | |
