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There are 5 total results for your 平声 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

平声

see styles
 hyoushou / hyosho
    ひょうしょう
(1) first tone in old Chinese phonetics; level tone; (2) (of a Japanese accent) having a low, flat tone

平聲


平声

see styles
píng shēng
    ping2 sheng1
p`ing sheng
    ping sheng
level or even tone; first and second tones in modern Mandarin
See: 平声

陰平聲


阴平声

see styles
yīn píng shēng
    yin1 ping2 sheng1
yin p`ing sheng
    yin ping sheng
high and level tone, the first tone of putonghua

陽平聲


阳平声

see styles
yáng píng shēng
    yang2 ping2 sheng1
yang p`ing sheng
    yang ping sheng
evenly rising tone, the second tone of putonghua

押平聲韻


押平声韵

see styles
yā píng shēng yùn
    ya1 ping2 sheng1 yun4
ya p`ing sheng yün
    ya ping sheng yün
to restrict to even tone (i.e. final rhyming syllable must be classical first or second tone 平聲|平声)

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 5 results for "平声" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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