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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The lack of one of the four primary phonetic tones of Chinese, sometimes viewed as a tone in its own right, and unmarked in Hanyu Pinyin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Chinese
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
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History
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Across languages
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