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模态 模態 mó tài modal (computing, linguistics)
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
le (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) / (modal particle intensifying preceding clause) syn
bei modal particle indicating lack of enthusiasm / modal particle indicating that things should only or can only be done a certain way syn
情态 情態 qíng tài spirit / mood / (linguistics) modal syn
升调 昇調 shēng diào to promote to a higher post / (linguistics) rising intonation / (Chinese linguistics) rising tone
颚龈音 顎齦音 è yín yīn prepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics) / palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
应用 應用 yìng yòng to put to use / to apply / practical / applied (science, linguistics etc) / application / practical use / (computing) app syn
转义 轉義 zhuǎn yì (linguistics) transferred meaning / (computing) to escape
尾缀 尾綴 wěi zhuì (lit.) to follow sb / (linguistics) suffix / ending / (computing) file name extension
罢了 罷了 bà liǎo a modal particle indicating (don't mind it, ok) syn
罢了 罷了 bà le a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much) syn
助动词 助動詞 zhù dòng cí auxiliary verb / modal verb
语气词 語氣詞 yǔ qì cí modal particle
ba (modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise) / ...right? / ...OK? / ...I presume. syn
a modal particle ending sentence, showing affirmation, approval, or consent syn
ma modal particle indicating that sth is obvious / particle indicating a pause for emphasis syn
li (modal final particle similar to 呢[ne5] or 啦[la5]) syn
lie modal particle expressing exclamation syn
跨通道启动技术 跨通道啟動技術 kuà tōng dào qǐ dòng jì shù cross modal technique
语气助词 語氣助詞 yǔ qì zhù cí modal particle syn
假声 假聲 jiǎ shēng falsetto (cf. 真聲|真声[zhen1sheng1], natural or modal voice)
lài (modal particle similar to 呢[ne5] or 啦[la1])
真声 真聲 zhēn shēng natural voice / modal voice (cf. 假聲|假声[jia3 sheng1], falsetto)
能愿动词 能願動詞 néng yuàn dòng cí modal verb (e.g. 肯[ken3], 能[neng2], 會|会[hui4], 要[yao4], 該|该[gai1], 得[dei3], 願意|愿意[yuan4 yi4], 可以[ke3 yi3], 可能[ke3 neng2], 敢[gan3], 應該|应该[ying1 gai1])
𫪁 lai (dialect) modal particle similar to 呢[ne5], 啦[la5] or 來著|来着[lai2zhe5]
虚拟 虛擬 xū nǐ to imagine / to make up / fictitious / theoretical / hypothetical / (computing) to emulate / (computing) virtual syn
优先级 優先級 yōu xiān jí (computing) priority level / (computing) precedence (of operators)
主从 主從 zhǔ cóng master-slave (computing) / client-server (computing) / primary and secondary syn
磁碟机 磁碟機 cí dié jī disk drive (computing) / drive (computing)
并行计算 並行計算 bìng xíng jì suàn parallel computing / (Tw) concurrent computing
强势 強勢 qiáng shì strong / powerful / (linguistics) emphatic / intensive
名词 名詞 míng cí (linguistics) noun / term (name for a concept)
映射 yìng shè to shine on / (math., linguistics etc) mapping syn
让步 讓步 ràng bù to concede / to give in / to yield / a concession / (linguistics) concessive syn
口音 kǒu yīn (linguistics) oral speech sounds syn
呼应 呼應 hū yìng to conform (with) / to echo / to correlate well / (linguistics) agreement syn
后缀 後綴 hòu zhuì suffix (linguistics)
语言学 語言學 yǔ yán xué linguistics
收音 shōu yīn to receive a radio signal / to make an audio recording / (of an auditorium etc) to have good acoustics / (vocal training, linguistics) ending (of a word or syllable)
日化 rì huà household chemicals (cleaning products etc) and toiletries (abbr. for 日用化學製品|日用化学制品[ri4 yong4 hua4 xue2 zhi4 pin3]) / (linguistics) to rhotacize / rhotic
母语 母語 mǔ yǔ native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
映衬 映襯 yìng chèn to set off by contrast / antithesis / analogy parallelism (linguistics) syn
韵律 韻律 yùn lǜ cadence / rhythm / rhyme scheme / meter (in verse) / (linguistics) prosody syn
前缀 前綴 qián zhuì prefix (linguistics)
复数 複數 fù shù (linguistics) plural / (math.) complex number
音译 音譯 yīn yì transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters) / characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown) / transcription (linguistics) / to transcribe phonetic symbols syn
同音 tóng yīn (music) unison / (linguistics) homophonous / homonymic
字根 zì gēn component of a Chinese character / (linguistics) word root / etymon
倒装 倒裝 dào zhuāng (linguistics) to invert (word order)
body / form / style / system / substance / to experience / aspect (linguistics) syn
虚词 虛詞 xū cí (linguistics) function word
词根 詞根 cí gēn (linguistics) root
词法 詞法 cí fǎ morphology (linguistics) / word formation and inflection
形态学 形態學 xíng tài xué morphology (in biology or linguistics)
实词 實詞 shí cí (linguistics) content word
多义 多義 duō yì polysemy / polysemous / ambiguity (linguistics)
词类 詞類 cí lèi (linguistics) part of speech / word class / lexical category
词缀 詞綴 cí zhuì prefix or suffix of a compound word / affix (linguistics)
喉音 hóu yīn guttural sound / (linguistics) glottal (or laryngeal) consonant
语料 語料 yǔ liào (linguistics) language material / language data
词汇学 詞彙學 cí huì xué lexicology (linguistics)
配价 配價 pèi jià (linguistics) valence / valency
施事 shī shì (linguistics) agent / doer
首音 shǒu yīn (linguistics) onset
文献学 文獻學 wén xiàn xué Philology / Historical Linguistics
祖语 祖語 zǔ yǔ proto-language / parent language (linguistics)
中古汉语 中古漢語 zhōng gǔ hàn yǔ Middle Chinese (linguistics)
倒装句 倒裝句 dào zhuāng jù (linguistics) inverted sentence
冗言 rǒng yán pleonasm (linguistics)
冗赘词 冗贅詞 rǒng zhuì cí expletive (linguistics)
受词 受詞 shòu cí object (linguistics)
塞音 sè yīn (linguistics) plosive / stop
拟音 擬音 nǐ yīn to make a sound effect / sound effect / (historical linguistics) to reconstruct the sound system of an archaic language
新式拚法 xīn shì pīn fǎ new spelling (linguistics)
时式 時式 shí shì fashionable style / (linguistics) tense syn
构词学 構詞學 gòu cí xué morphology (linguistics)
粘着性 粘著性 zhān zhuó xìng agglutinative (in linguistics, a characteristic of Altaic languages)
词干 詞幹 cí gàn word stem (in linguistics)
词形 詞形 cí xíng form of words (e.g. inflection, conjugation) / morphology (linguistics)
语言匮乏 語言匱乏 yǔ yán kuì fá language deficit (linguistics)
译词 譯詞 yì cí (linguistics) an equivalent / a translation of a term into the target language
软龈音 軟齦音 ruǎn yín yīn velar sound (linguistics)
连系词 連繫詞 lián xì cí copula (linguistics)
选听 選聽 xuǎn tīng selective listening (linguistics)
零声母 零聲母 líng shēng mǔ (Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
音读 音讀 yīn dú reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀|训读[xun4 du2]. For example, 山 has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)
齿龈音 齒齦音 chǐ yín yīn alveolar, apical, or supradental sound (linguistics)
龈擦音 齦擦音 yín cā yīn alveolar fricative (linguistics)
龈辅音 齦輔音 yín fǔ yīn palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
龈音 齦音 yín yīn alveolar sound (linguistics)
龈颚音 齦顎音 yín è yīn prepalatal sound (linguistics)
龈腭音 齦齶音 yín è yīn alveo-palatal sound (linguistics)
训读 訓讀 xùn dú a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子[tou2 zi5] may be pronounced as its synonym 色子[shai3 zi5], and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩|两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀|音读[yin1 du2]. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)
软腭音 軟齶音 ruǎn è yīn (linguistics) velar consonant
上古汉语 上古漢語 shàng gǔ hàn yǔ Old Chinese (linguistics)
王力 wáng lì Wang Li (1900-1986), one of the pioneers of modern Chinese linguistics
集合名词 集合名詞 jí hé míng cí collective noun (linguistics)
原语 原語 yuán yǔ source language (linguistics)
国际应用语言学协会 International Association of Applied Linguistics
仂语 仂語 lè yǔ phrase (linguistics)
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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