| Change log entry 70045 | |
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| Processed by: | goldyn_chyld (2020-07-09 06:46:22 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 66415 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> 1. It's the (absent) consonant, not the absence of a consonant. LA's definition is 語音學上把元音起頭的音節的聲母，稱為零聲母。(literally, the initial of a syllable that doesn't have an initial) LA gives examples: 如「啊（ㄚ ā）」、「鵝（ㄜˊ é）」、「偶（ㄡˇ ǒu）」、「淹（丨ㄢ yān）」、「完（ㄨㄢˊ wán）」、「遠（ㄩㄢˇ yuǎn）」等音節的聲母。 So the initial of 啊 is 零声母. That is, the initial of the syllable "ā" is the zero initial (or the "null initial", if you like). 2. It's not a "syllable having no initial" -- it's the initial of such a syllable. 3. "starting directly with the medial vowel" -- That's wrong too, because a syllable like ān, for example, has a zero initial, but it has no medial vowel (yi, wu or yu) either. |
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- 零聲母 零声母 [ling2 sheng1 mu3] /absence of initial consonant/a Chinese syllable having no initial consonant (starting directly with the medial vowel)/ + 零聲母 零声母 [ling2 sheng1 mu3] /(Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)/ |