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Minimal pairs involving qingsheng and erhua


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That's what my ear tells me. I'll have to listen more closely next time. I don't remember hearing a rising tone on "hu" in the Wuxia series I've seen, but then again, I wasn't really paying attention to that either.

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it's hard going by ear, unless you can find a place where they stress the word. If the word is in unstressed position, it could very well sound as though it were neutral.

The dictionary at least has it as a full tone.

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It is jiānghú. I think I had a song about jianghu stuck in my ear, and it messed with my tones.

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it's hard going by ear, unless you can find a place where they stress the word.

2:55 to 3:00.

The ABC has a neutral tone variant, the 规范 doesn't.

  • 6 months later...
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I found another one:

肉食 [ròushí] meat

肉食 [ròushi] carnivorous

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