A checked tone, commonly known by the Chinese calque entering tone, is one of the four syllable types in the phonology of Middle Chinese. Although usually...

the historical dark checked tone, though is listed as its own group by others, often due to its more regular light checked tones. Jilu Mandarin is spoken...

tones in Sichuanese: dark level tone, light level tone, rising tone, departing tone and entering tone (or checked tone). In some regions the checked tone...

is mid tone in a register system and /˧˧/ is mid level tone in a contour system, or /˧/ may be mid tone on a short syllable or a mid checked tone, while...

checked tone syllables, only fully voiced consonants still retain the checked tone, while clear and sub-voiced syllables are spoken with a high tone (Chinese:...

aspiration conditions a further tone split through the dark tones. Note that, unlike Yue languages, the dark checked tone split is conditioned by aspiration...

typically preserve all voiced initials of medieval Chinese, as well as the checked tone in the form of a glottal stop. Wu varieties also have noticably unique...

otherwise be checked; for example, the a of tap corresponding to /æ/ whereas that in tape corresponds to /eɪ/. List of phonetics topics Checked tone of Chinese...

dialect group in which checked tone characters with a voiceless initial have dark level, light level, rising and departing tone reflexes. He chose the...

and entering or checked (入 rù). (The last three are collectively referred to as oblique 仄 (zè), an important concept in poetic tone patterns.) They are...

The checked tones are shorter, and describe those rimes which end in a glottal stop /ʔ/. That is, both the yin–yang distinction and the checked tones are...

However, checked tone syllables (ending in the stops /p/, /t/ or /k/ in Middle Chinese) were all written with a glottal stop ending. (Other tones are not...

aspirated and voiced consonants. There were four tones, with the fourth or "entering tone", a checked tone comprising syllables ending in plosives (-p, -t...

pitch of the checked tone is almost the same as that of the falling tone. Therefore, some speakers confuse the checked tone with a falling tone. Giving a...

the following: 陰入 [ ˩ ] a low pitched checked tone 陽入 [ ˥ ] a high pitched checked tone Middle Chinese entering tone syllables ending in [k] whose vowel...

are level tones, it's a common convention to use double tone letters for those level tones, and single tone letters for short checked tones, as in Taiwanese...

consonant, may be called checked, abrupt, clipped, or stopped tones. It has been theorized that the relative timing of a contour tone is not distinctive. That...

and S respectively. Finals with the coda /-ʔ/ are considered to be the checked tone counterparts for the open-vowel finals. /ə/ is not found in Amoy Hokkien...

three checked tones are separated, the stop codas /p, t, k/ are in complementary distribution with the nasal codas /m, n, ŋ/. Cantonese uses tone contours...

only on the basis of tone: Low ခါ /kʰà/ "shake" High ခါး /kʰá/ "be bitter" Creaky ခ /kʰa̰/ "to wait upon; to attend on" Checked ခတ် /kʰaʔ/ "to beat; to...

Southern dialect has several notable features such as having four distinct checked tones, and using various loanwords from the Zhuang languages, such as the...

audible release and may be transcribed as [m̚] of different length and tone. Checked tone Glottal reinforcement Lateral release (phonetics) Nasal release T-glottalization...

yinping), Tone 2 (35) (a rising tone or yangping), Tone 3 (32) (slight falling tone or shang), Tone 4 (55) (high even or qu), and Tone 5 (5) (checked tone or...

analyses, syllables ending in stops have been treated as a fourth or "checked tone", because their distribution parallels that of syllables with nasal codas...

the "dark—light" order (the checked tones are 7 and 8) or in the "level—rising—departing—entering" order (the checked tones are 4 and 8). This section...

known as nisshō, nissei (入聲, literally "entering voice"), referred to a checked tone, or a syllable that ends in an unreleased plosive (see w:zh:促聲). 促聲 contrasts...

assimilation that occurs after them. Although the iòng-ĭk (陽入) tone is also a checked tone composed of both types of syllables, in -k and in -h, there is...

The tone of this system is based on the Swatow dialect. The system uses the Latin alphabet to transcript pronunciation and numbers to note tones. Before...

also have a distance-neutral demonstrative 搿, which is etymologically a checked-tone derivation of 個. In lects such as Shanghainese, distance-based demonstratives...

readings Go-on: an earlier type of reading Tō-on: a later type of reading Checked tone Miyake, Marc Hideo (2003). Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction. Routledge...