小韻

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	rhyme
trad. (小韻)		小	韻
simp. (小韵)		小	韵

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiǎoyùn

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄩㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu² wan⁶, siu² wan⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎoyùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄩㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎoyùn
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao³-yün⁴
    • Yale: syǎu-yùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheauyunn
    • Palladius: сяоюнь (sjaojunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ yn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu² wan⁶, siu² wan⁵
    • Yale: síu wahn, síu wáhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu² wan⁶, siu² wan⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu² wen⁶, xiu² wen⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³⁵ wɐn²²/, /siːu̯³⁵ wɐn¹³/

Noun

小韻

1. (Chinese phonetics) subset of a rhyme group which collects all characters sharing the same initial, final and tone (i.e. homophones)
2. (poetry) in a pentasyllabic couplet, having a non-final syllable that shares the main rhyme