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翘舌音
qiào​shé​yīn

retroflex sound

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
翘舌音 翹舌音 qiào​shé​yīn
retroflex sound
a sound made by curling the tip of the tongue back toward the roof of the mouth, such as Mandarin "zh", "ch", "sh", and "r"

Frequency

Written text
0.038 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 卷舌音 juǎn​shé​yīn
  • 舌尖后音 shé​jiān​hòu​yīn

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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