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音段
  jam1 dyun6   jyutping
  yin1 duan4   pinyin
sound segment or base syllable of a tonal syllable

1. In Chinese phonology, (tonal) syllable (音節) = sound segment (音段) + tone (聲調).
2. sound segment (音段) = initial (聲母) + final (韻母). Cantonese has about 625 legitimate sounds.
noun

Level: 4
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
音段

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Characters in this word:

 jam1  -  sound; voice; noise; tone
 dyun6  -  section, paragraph, phase
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