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Examples:evenly rising tone, the second tone of putonghua—high and level tone, the first tone of putonghua—tones of the musical scale—uneven tone (the third tone of classical Chinese)—one of the four tones of Middle Chinese—traditional system expressing the phonetic value of a Chinese character using two other characters, the first for the initial consonant, the second for the rhyme and tone—hole in the body of a musical instrument, covered with a membrane which produces a buzzing tone—medial and final of a Chinese syllable (excluding initial consonant and tone)—Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed in240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical—tone of one's voice when asking a rhetorical question—pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system—nine tones and six modes (tonal system of Cantonese and other southern languages)— |