五音
Chinese
five | sound; noise; news | ||
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simp. and trad. (五音) |
五 | 音 |
Pronunciation
Noun
五音
- (music) the five notes of the Chinese pentatonic scale (宮, 商, 角, 徵, 羽, also called 合, 四, 乙, 尺, 工 after the Tang dynasty, equivalent to do, re, mi, sol, la in the Western solfège system or 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 in the Chinese numbered musical notation system)
- (phonetics) the five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics (喉音, 舌音, 齒音, 唇音, 牙音)
Derived terms
- 五音不全 (wǔyīnbùquán)
See also
- 五宮
- 五聲
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