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隔音符號

简隔音符号 · 繁隔音符號

Mandarin · pinyin gé yīn fú hào

apostrophe, as used in pinyin orthography (i.e. to mark a boundary between two syllables, as in "dàng'àn" 檔案 dàng àn)

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隔: gé · separate, partition
音: yīn · sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation; Kangxi radical 180
符: fú · i.d. tag, tally, symbol, charm
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号: hào · mark, sign; symbol; number

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2–1–2–4 · ge2 yin1 fu2 hao4

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noun

apostrophe used to divide syllables within a word to avoid ambiguity in various alphabetic systems used in China; in pinyin, to be used between two syllables in a word (unless a hyphen is being used) whenever the second syllable begins with an a, o or e (regardless of whether any ambiguity exists) and not in any other circumstance

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