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五音
Mandarin · pinyin wǔ yīn
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- 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 chǐ yīn, 唇音 chún yīn
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3–1 · wu3 yin1
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ng5 jam1
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noun
- (music) the five notes of the Chinese pentatonic scale (宮, 商, 角, 徵, 羽, also called 合, 四, 乙, 尺, 工 after the Tang dynasty, equivalent to do, re, mi, sol, la in the Western solfège system or 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 in the Chinese numbered musical notation system)
- (phonetics) the five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics (喉音, 舌音, 齒音, 唇音, 牙音)
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