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  2. Four tones (Middle Chinese) - Wikipedia

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    The four tones of Chinese poetry and dialectology (simplified Chinese: 四声; traditional Chinese: 四聲; pinyin: sìshēng) are four traditional tone classes [1] of Chinese words. They play an important role in Chinese poetry and in comparative studies of tonal development in the modern varieties of Chinese , both in traditional Chinese and ...

  3. File:Fourth tone (Mandarin).svg - Wikipedia

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    Introduction à la langue chinoise/Généralités sur le mandarin standard; Usage on gl.wikipedia.org Lingua chinesa; Usage on id.wikipedia.org Nada (linguistik) Templat:Nada bahasa Cina; Usage on id.wikibooks.org Bahasa Tionghoa (Mandarin)/Pelafalan; Usage on io.wikipedia.org Pinyin-sistemo; Usage on ko.wikipedia.org 성조; Usage on pt ...

  4. File:Pinyin Tone Chart.svg - Wikipedia

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    Chart showing the relative changes in pitch for the four tones of Mandarin Chinese. On a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being the highest pitch, the first tone remains constant at 5, the second tone rises from 3 to 5, the third tone falls from 2 to 1 and then rises to 4, and the fourth tone falls from 5 to 1. Source: Self-published work by Wereon ...

  5. Tone name - Wikipedia

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    In tonal languages, tone names are the names given to the tones these languages use. Pitch contours of the four Mandarin tones In contemporary standard Chinese (Mandarin), the tones are numbered from 1 to 4.

  6. File:Mandarin tone contours (Beijing standard).svg - Wikipedia

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  7. File:Mandarin tones in musical notation.svg - Wikipedia

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    This image attempts to illustrate relative pitch changes of the four tones of Mandarin Chinese using musical notation, with each bar representing tones one, two, three and four respectively. I'm no expert at Inkscape, music, or Chinese, so any improvements would be very welcome. Date: 21 December 2006: Source

  8. File:Map of number of tone categories in Chinese dialects.svg

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    English: Map of the variation in the number of tone categories in local Chinese dialects in the core Chinese-speaking area, reflecting fieldwork conducted between December 2002 and December 2006. It is customary to treat syllables with stop codas as separate tone categories.

  9. Mandarin Chinese - Wikipedia

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    The Zhongyuan Yinyun shows the typical Mandarin four-tone system resulting from a split of the "even" tone and loss of the entering tone, with its syllables distributed across the other tones (though their different origin is marked in the dictionary). Similarly, voiced plosives and affricates have become voiceless aspirates in the "even" tone ...