Sentence examples for entering tone from inspiring English sources

The entering tone comprised those syllables that ended in a stop (-p, -t, -k).

[Z] was completely absent from the entering tone ji̍p, while [G] was not observed in the nasal-ending syllable jím.

This seemed to imply that [D] prefers syllables containing the vowel [i], especially those with an entering tone, but tends to avoid syllables containing the glide [j].

An entering tone is a syllable ending in [p, t, k, ʔ] (Cheng and Cheng Xie 鄭良偉, 鄭謝淑娟 1977; Chung 1997).

否 fou 3 and 不 bu 4 in modern Mandarin come from 不 *pK, a departing tone word, and 弗 *pKt, an entering tone word, in Old Chinese, respectively.

The [i] in ji̍p would be somewhere in-between since it is a syllable bearing an entering tone (Cheng and Cheng Xie 鄭良偉, 鄭謝淑娟 1977; Chung 1997 13.

As its first criterion for classifying syllables, the Qieyun takes the tones, of which it has four: ping, shang (here transcribed with a colon, as in pa:), qu (here transcribed with a hyphen, as in pa-), and ru, or even, rising, falling, and entering ("checked") tones.

The pointed finger of media – and police – blame starts to swing Nick's way, and he doesn't endear himself to his readers as a hint of misogyny enters his tone.

But perhaps as much as anything else, the often combative governor will try to strike a new tone entering his second year in office.

"You need to protect your work," he says, a steely tone entering the honey of his voice, "it's my intellectual property, as it would be in any other creative industry".

In that context, it seems odd that Channel 4 would adopt such a serious tone, entering a three-way fight for the geek audience while more casual viewers are neglected.