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小韻

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Mandarin · pinyin xiǎo yùn

homophone group (group of homophone characters, in a rhyme book)

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小: xiǎo · small, tiny, insignificant
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韵: yùn · rhyme; vowel

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Mandarin tones

3–4 · xiao3 yun4

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noun

(Chinese phonetics) subset of a rhyme group which collects all characters sharing the same initial, final and tone (i.e. homophones)
(poetry) in a pentasyllabic couplet, having a non-final syllable that shares the main rhyme

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