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元音

yuán yīn

2-character word

What 元音 means

1. vowel

The characters in 元音

• 元yuáncurrency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); (bound form) first; original; primary…
• 音yīnsound; noise; note (of musical scale)

Example sentences

• 有没有没有元音的语言？
  Yǒuméiyǒu méiyǒu yuányīn de yǔyán?
  Are there any languages with no vowels?
• 法语的元音比日语的多得多。
  Fǎyǔ de yuányīn bǐ Rìyǔ de duō de duō.
  There are many more vowels in French than in Japanese.
• 为字母添加元音是阿拉伯语书写的基础之一。
  Vowelizing letters is one of the basics of writing in the Arabic language.

Words starting with 元音

• 元音和谐yuán yīn hé xiévowel harmony (in phonetics of Altaic languages)

Words containing 元音

• 复合元音fù hé yuán yīndiphthong (such as putonghua ɑi, ei etc)
• 双元音shuāng yuán yīndiphthong
• 闭元音bì yuán yīnclose vowel
• 卷舌元音juǎn shé yuán yīnretroflex vowel (e.g. the final r of putonghua)
• 三元音sān yuán yīntriphthong (such as putonghua uei etc)

Sounds the same

Read yuán yīn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 原因cause; origin; root cause