zhuó
yīn

technical
linguistics

Meaning of 浊音

浊音 means voiced sound; voiced consonant (phonetics). Pronounced zhuó yīn.

  • voiced sound; voiced consonant (phonetics)

Definitions & Examples

Shēng
dài
zhèn
dòng
chū
de
yīn
jiù
shì
zhuó
yīn
 

Sounds produced by vocal cord vibration are voiced sounds.

Yīng
zhōng
/z//
shìz
zhuó/
yīn
/s/
shì
 
qīng/
yīns
 /
 
 
 
 

In English, /z/ is voiced while /s/ is voiceless.

de
háng
shì
zhuó
yīn
 

The "ga" row in Japanese consists of voiced sounds.

Zhōng
Hàn
de
quán
zhuó
shēng
zài
xiàn
dài
tōng
huà
zhōng
duō
biàn
chéng
le
qīng
yīn
 

Fully voiced initials in Middle Chinese mostly became voiceless in Modern Standard Mandarin.

Measure Words

/
Primary
/ zhǒng