created sense approved 半子音 · bànzǐyīn · semivowel — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
半子音
bànzǐyīn
semivowel
speech sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the boundary of a syllable rather than the core
半 (literal) → 半 · bàn · half 子音 (literal) → 子音 · zǐyīn · consonant
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition