Sentence examples for four tones from inspiring English sources

Its vowels include plain, pharyngealised, strident and breathy, and they carry four tones.

The four tones of Mandarin Chinese, as well as context, help to eliminate ambiguities.

The Four-Word Formula Mandarin has only four tones and a standard system of romanization, called Pinyin.

Mr. Zhou's pinyin system, which turned Peking into Beijing, uses markers to identify which of Mandarin's four tones to use.

"I mixed three or four tones of warm sienna with lighter tones of white, with a hint of yellow ochre for warmth.

Modern Standard Chinese has four tones, while the more archaic Cantonese language uses at least six tones, as did Ancient Chinese.

It has five tones, not four.

Instead, I quickly touch seven tones.

SW0 is used to select between two tones.

Haida has some 35 consonants and two tones.

Cantonese has six tones, and Min Chinese dialects seven or eight.