粵

上soeng5聲sing1

simp上声
soeng5 sing1shǎng shēng

English

  1. falling and rising tone
  2. the rising tone category in Chinese languages (despite its name the actual pitch varies across languages, not necessarily rising)
  3. third tone in modern Mandarin

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 漢語系語言嘅傳統嘅聲調種類,係四聲之一,字面上指字音聲調高昂,喺傳統詩律入面屬於仄聲;而家嘅「上聲」喺各地語言入面唔一定係高昂、上升嘅聲調,而喺粵語入面就分咗做陰上同陽上兩組,分別歸入第二聲同第五聲。

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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