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音节

yīn jié

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 音節

音节 (yīn jié) means "syllable". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 音节 means

1. syllable

The characters in 音节

• 音yīnsound; noise; note (of musical scale)
• 节jiéjoint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term…

Example sentences

• 汉语是单音节语言。
  Chinese is a monosyllabic language.
• 这个词有多少个音节？
  How many syllables does this word have?
• “Guitar”一字的重音在第二音节。
  “Guitar” yīzì de zhòngyīn zài dì'èr yīnjié.
  The accent of "guitar" falls on the second syllable.
• 「Guitar」一字的重音在第二音节。
  The accent in "guitar" falls on the second syllable.

Words starting with 音节

• 音节体yīn jié tǐsyllabic script

Words containing 音节

• 单音节dān yīn jiémonosyllabic; a monosyllable
• 重音节zhòng yīn jiéaccented syllable; stress
• 双音节shuāng yīn jiébisyllable
• 闭音节bì yīn jiéclosed syllable
• 多音节词duō yīn jié cípolysyllabic word; Chinese word made up of three or more characters

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