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上陰入
soeng6 jam1 jap6
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high (上) dark (陰) entering (入) tone, referring to tone 7 (or 1 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 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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Characters in this word:上 soeng6 soeng5 - upper; superior; preceding; up; on陰 jam1 - overcast; shade; yin; covert; private parts 入 jap6 - enter |
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