the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable; the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component 青[qing1] in 清[qing1])
trad. 聲母
Also written 聲母【shēng mǔ】
Characters in this word
2声
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
sound, voice, tone, noise, reputation, classifier for sounds
- Pinyin
- shēng
- Traditional
- 聲
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 2265 of 2500
母
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
mother, elderly female relative, origin, source, (of animals) female
- Pinyin
- mǔ
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 10584 of 2500