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陰入
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dark entering tone, referring to tone 7 (or 1 with a final stop consonant) or 8 (or 3 with a final stop consonant) in Cantonese. Middle Chinese syllables with entering tones and unvoiced initials have a dark entering tone. Cantonese has two levels of dark entering tones: high and low. Usually, syllables with short vowels have a high dark entering tone (上陰入, tone 7) and syllables with long vowels have a low dark entering tone (下陰入, tone 8).
Level: 3 This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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陰入 / 阴入 | ||
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Characters in this word:陰 jam1 - overcast; shade; yin; covert; private parts入 jap6 - enter 2 compounds containing this word:上陰入 - high dark entering tone, tone 7(1)下陰入 - low dark entering tone, tone 8(3) |
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