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neutral tone

neutral tone noun: the lack of one of the four primary phonetic tones of Chinese, sometimes viewed as a tone in its own right, and unmarked in Hanyu Pinyin.

Noun

neutral tone (plural neutral tones)

  1. (Chinese) The lack of one of the four primary phonetic tones of Chinese, sometimes viewed as a tone in its own right, and unmarked in Hanyu Pinyin.

Forms of neutral tone

pluralneutral tones

Questions about neutral tone

What does neutral tone mean?
Neutral tone means the lack of one of the four primary phonetic tones of Chinese, sometimes viewed as a tone in its own right, and unmarked in Hanyu Pinyin.
What part of speech is neutral tone?
Neutral tone is a noun.
What is the plural of neutral tone?
The plural of neutral tone is neutral tones.

Words near neutral tone in the dictionary

  1. neutral sections
  2. neutral spirit
  3. neutral spirits
  4. neutral third
  5. neutral thirds
  6. neutral tone
  7. neutral tones
  8. neutral vowel
  9. neutral vowels
  10. neutral zone
  11. neutral zones

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