"prepalatal sound (linguistics)" Chinese-English Dictionary

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龈颚音 齦顎音 yín è yīn prepalatal sound (linguistics)
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
颚龈音 顎齦音 è yín yīn prepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics) / palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
拟音 擬音 nǐ yīn to make a sound effect / sound effect / (historical linguistics) to reconstruct the sound system of an archaic language
响起 響起 xiǎng qǐ (of a sound) to come forth / (of a sound source) to ring out / to sound / to go off syn
xiǎng echo / sound / noise / to make a sound / to sound / to ring / loud / classifier for noises syn
声速修正 聲速修正 sound velocity correction / velocity correction / sound speed correction / speed of sound correction
闪光震撼弹 閃光震撼彈 flash-bang diversionary grenade / flare and sound grenade / sound and flash grenade / stun grenade / sound bomb / percussion grenade
升调 昇調 shēng diào to promote to a higher post / (linguistics) rising intonation / (Chinese linguistics) rising tone
喉音 hóu yīn guttural sound / (linguistics) glottal (or laryngeal) consonant
软龈音 軟齦音 ruǎn yín yīn velar sound (linguistics)
齿龈音 齒齦音 chǐ yín yīn alveolar, apical, or supradental sound (linguistics)
龈音 齦音 yín yīn alveolar sound (linguistics)
龈腭音 齦齶音 yín è yīn alveo-palatal sound (linguistics)
音频 音頻 yīn pín audio / sound / audio frequency / sound frequency syn
录音 錄音 lù yīn to record (sound) / sound recording / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
音响 音響 yīn xiǎng sound / acoustics / audio / hi-fi system / stereo sound system (abbr. for 組合音響|组合音响[zu3he2 yin1xiang3]) syn
叫声 叫聲 jiào shēng yelling (sound made by person) / barking / braying / roaring (sound made by animals) syn
呼呼 hū hū (onom.) sound of the wind or the breathing of sb who is sound asleep syn
声息 聲息 shēng xī sound (often with negative, not a sound) / whisper syn
听来 聽來 tīng lái to sound (old, foreign, exciting, right etc) / to ring (true) / to sound as if (i.e. to give the listener an impression) / to hear from somewhere
鸣叫 鳴叫 míng jiào to emit a sound / (of birds, insects etc) to chirp, hoot etc / (of a siren, steam whistle etc) to sound syn
良材 liáng cái good timber / sound material / fig. able person / sound chap
(onom.) sound of cawing / sound of infant learning to talk / variant of 呀[ya1] syn
Wow! / sound of a child's crying / sound of vomiting syn
huā sound of a thing flying fast by / whoosh / cracking sound / Taiwan pr. [huo4] syn
戛然而止 jiá rán ér zhǐ with a grunting sound it stops (idiom) / to come to an end spontaneously (esp. of sound) syn
声速剖面 聲速剖面 shēng sù pōu miàn sound velocity profile / velocity profile / speed of sound profile
fēng (onom.) sound of flowing water / sound of wind / Taiwan pr. [feng2]
(onom.) sound of sth splitting or breaking apart / sound of an object falling to the ground / a cry of rage / Taiwan pr. [bo1]
吃吃 chī chī (onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc) / sound of stammering
异响 異響 yì xiǎng unusual sound / strange noise / to make a strange sound
啪嚓 pā chā (onom.) (sound of sth smashing as it hits the ground) / (onom.) (sound made by a camera shutter)
应用 應用 yìng yòng to put to use / to apply / practical / applied (science, linguistics etc) / application / practical use / (computing) app syn
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
情态 情態 qíng tài spirit / mood / (linguistics) modal syn
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
转义 轉義 zhuǎn yì (linguistics) transferred meaning / (computing) to escape
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
模态 模態 mó tài modal (computing, linguistics)
词缀 詞綴 cí zhuì prefix or suffix of a compound word / affix (linguistics)
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
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
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".)
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)
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
尾缀 尾綴 wěi zhuì (lit.) to follow sb / (linguistics) suffix / ending / (computing) file name extension
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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