"Tones" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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私语	sī yǔ	to discuss in whispered tones / whispered conversation
平仄	píng zè	level and oblique tones (technical term for Classical Chinese rhythmic poetry)
四声	sì shēng	the four tones of Middle Chinese: level tone 平聲\|平声, rising tone 上聲\|上声, departing tone 去聲\|去声 / and entering tone 入聲\|入声 / the four tones of Modern Standard Mandarin
凡响	fán xiǎng	ordinary tones / everyday harmony / common chord
平声	píng shēng	level or even tone / first and second tones in modern Mandarin
入声	rù shēng	entering tone / checked tone / one of the four tones of Middle Chinese
仄	zè	to tilt / narrow / uneasy / oblique tones (in Chinese poetry)
调值	diào zhí	pitch of tones
声调的调值	shēng diào de diào zhí	pitch of tones
七声	qī shēng	tones of the musical scale
九声六调	jiǔ shēng liù diào	nine tones and six modes (tonal system of Cantonese and other southern languages)
龙龛手鉴	Lóng kān Shǒu jiàn	Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed into 240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical
窃声	qiè shēng	in a whisper / in stealthy tones
全拼	quán pīn	(computing) full pinyin (input method where the user types pinyin without tones, e.g. "shiqing" for 事情[shi4 qing5])