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五音
wǔ yīn
Definitions
- •five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la
- •five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音[hóu yīn], 牙音[yá yīn], 舌音[shé yīn], 齒音|齿音[chǐ yīn], 唇音[chún yīn]