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Mandarin · pinyin mó shēng cí

(linguistics) onomatopoeic word

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摹: mó · trace, copy, duplicate; pattern
聲: shēng · sound, voice, noise; tone; music
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声: shēng · sound, voice, noise; tone; music
词: cí · words; phrase, expression

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2–1–2 · mo2 sheng1 ci2

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