This is about Chinese tones. Either you know what it means and care or don’t and shouldn’t.
Tone duration: 4th is shortest 3d is longest.
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Tone pairs: classical Chinese was monosyllabic and in its earliest days a-tonal. Contemporary Chinese is mostly bisyllabic and tonal. Tones should be learned in pairs. Admissible tone pairs in Chinese:
12
13
14
21
23
24
31
32
34
42
43
44
I am still hoping to find a frequency table arranged by tones either for phonemes or characters.
The following are impermissible tone combinations.
11
22
33
41