Turn up the bass.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
音调
pitch of voice (high or low)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
pitch of voice (high or low)
02
pitch (of a musical note)
03
tone
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 音调 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 音调 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I'm actually relatively good at written language, but with spoken language I often can't remember the tone on some word.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 音调.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 音调.
Directly before
- 的音调1
- 低音调1
Directly after
- 音调大1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 音调
What does 音调 mean in Chinese?
音调 (yīndiào) means pitch of voice (high or low).
How do you pronounce 音调?
音调 is pronounced yīndiào.
Is 音调 an HSK word?
音调 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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