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Trad. 應聲
- an answering voice
- to answer a voice
- to respond
- to copy a voice
- to parrot
Trad. 四聲
- the four tones of Middle Chinese: level tone 平聲|平声, rising tone 上聲|上声, departing tone 去聲|去声 and entering tone 入聲|入声
- the four tones of Modern Standard Mandarin
Trad. 變聲
- voice change (at puberty)
- to alter one's voice (deliberately)
- to sound different (when angry etc)
Trad. 發聲
- to produce a sound; to vocalize
- to give voice; to articulate views or demands
Trad. 聲母
- the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable
- the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component 青[qing1] in 清[qing1])
Trad. 形聲
- ideogram plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters)
- also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character
Trad. 聲符
- phonetic component of a Chinese character (e.g. the component 青[qing] in 清[qing1])
Trad. 聲線
- voice (as sth that may be described as husky 沙啞|沙哑[sha1 ya3] or deep 低沉[di1 chen2] etc)
- (physics) sound ray
Trad. 邊聲
- outlandish sounds (wind blowing on frontier, wild horses neighing etc)
Trad. 仄聲
- oblique tone
- nonlevel tone
- uneven tone (the third tone of Classical Chinese)
Trad. 終聲
- the final of a Korean syllable (consonant or consonant cluster at the end of the syllable)
Trad. 聲部
- part (in multipart instrumental or choral music), such as the soprano part or bass part
Trad. 聲類
- Shenglei, the earliest Chinese rime dictionary with 11,520 single-character entries, released in 3rd century (was not preserved to this day)
Trad. 聲鵐
- (bird species of China) common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus)
Trad. 諧聲
- combination of a signific component and a phonetic element to form a phono-semantic character, as in 功[gong1], which has signific 力[li4] and phonetic 工[gong1] (also referred to as 形聲|形声[xing2 sheng1])
- (of words or characters) homophonous
Trad. 鄭聲
- folk music of the state of Zheng 鄭|郑[Zheng4]
- lascivious, decadent music
Trad. 吱聲
- to utter a word
- to make a sound
- to cheep
- to squeak
- also pr. [zi1 sheng1]
Trad. 入聲
- entering tone
- checked tone
- one of the four tones of Middle Chinese
Trad. 罵聲
- scolding
- tongue-lashing
- (fig.) angry criticism
- opprobrium
- CL:片[pian4]
Trad. 初聲
- the initial consonant (or doubled consonant) of a Korean syllable
Trad. 叫聲
- yelling (sound made by person)
- barking
- braying
- roaring (sound made by animals)
Trad. 零聲母
- (Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
Trad. 陰平聲
- high and level tone, the first tone of putonghua
Trad. 大小聲
- (Tw) (coll.) to speak loudly and emotionally; to raise one's voice; to yell and shout
Trad. 陽平聲
- evenly rising tone, the second tone of putonghua
Trad. 賴聲川
- Lai Shengchuan (1954-), US-Taiwanese dramatist and director
Trad. 倪柝聲
- Ni Tuosheng or Watchman Nee (1903-1972), influential Chinese Christian
Trad. 聲旁字
- character serving as sound value of another character
- phonetic
Trad. 傳聲筒
- loudhailer
- megaphone
- one who parrots sb
- mouthpiece
Trad. 眾口同聲
- (of people) to be of one voice (idiom)
- unanimous
Trad. 同聲一哭
- to share one's feeling of grief with others (idiom)
Trad. 言為心聲
- one's words reflect one's thinking (idiom)
Trad. 悲聲載道
- lamentations fill the roads (idiom); severe suffering all around