hóu
yīn

technical

Meaning of 喉塞音

喉塞音 means glottal stop. Pronounced hóu sè yīn.

  • glottal stop

Definitions & Examples

Zài
Shàng
hǎi
huà
zhōng
 
 
 
 
 
shí
 
 
 
bǎi
 
děng
de
wěi
yīn
tōng
cháng
shì
hóu
yīn
 

In Shanghainese, the final sound of characters like 'yi', 'shi', and 'bai' is typically a glottal stop.

yán
xué
zhōng
 
hóu
yīn
de
guó
yīn
biāo
hào
shì
 [
ʔʔ
 ]
 

In linguistics, the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for a glottal stop is [ʔ].

Xué
Ā
shí
 
yào
zhǎng
hóu
yīn
de
yīn
fāng
 

When learning Arabic, one needs to master the articulation of the glottal stop.

Yīng
kǒu
zhōng
de
 
uhu
-h
oh-
o
h
 
yīn
jié
hóu
yīn
kāi
tóu
 
 
 

In spoken English, the first syllable of 'uh-oh' begins with a glottal stop.