Chinese phonology, where sokusei (促聲, Traditional Chinese and kyūjitai spelling), also known as nisshō, nissei (入聲, literally "entering voice"), referred...

contours in Cantonese. However, as three of the nine are entering tones (入聲; jap6 sing1), which only appear in syllables ending with p, t, and k, they...

"撥音と促音". 音韻漫錄 (in Japanese). pp. 45–47. Ōshima, Masatake (5 February 1899). "古今入聲の比較". 東京獨立雜誌 (in Japanese) (21): 13. Yamaguchi, Akiho; 秋山, 守英 (1 March 2001)...

Chinese rhymes, which included a 5th tone; the checked tone (rù shēng or 入聲). It wasn't until 1932 that a dictionary called the Vocabulary of National...

(平聲) and one each for the three oblique tones, rising (上聲), departing (去聲) and entering (入聲). Each tone is split into rimes, with a total of 206 final...

the 'departing' (去聲) and 'rising' (上聲) tones, respectively. (The 'even' tone (平聲) was not marked. The 'entering' (入聲) "tone", which was not a tone at all...

not fit the three intonations and was categorised as the "entering tone" (入聲), thus forming the four-tone system. The use of this system flourished in...

three tones filled one volume each. The last category or 'entering tone' (入聲; rùshēng) consisted of words ending in stops -p, -t or -k, corresponding to...

Romanization system Tone Dark (陰) Light (陽) Checked (入聲) Chao Tone Contour 53, 55 35 33 21, 11 24, 13 22 5 3 2 IPA Tone Letters ˥˧, ˥ ˧˥ ˧ ˨˩, ˩ ˨˦, ˩˧...

(or [ɻ]), while southern dialects have [j], [z], [ɲ], or [n]. 「平聲哀而安，上聲厲而舉，去聲清而遠，入聲直而促」, translated in Ting (1996), p. 152 The word translated "straight"...