shé​yīn

lingual sound

舌音 shé​yīn
lingual sound
a speech sound produced with the tongue, categorized into apical, dorsal, or radical sounds depending on the part of the tongue used
lingual initials
a category of consonants in traditional Middle Chinese phonology, further divided into 舌头音 shé​tóu​yīn (dental stops) and 舌上音 shé​shàng​yīn (palatals)

Frequency

Written text
0.112 per million

Cross-References

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Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)