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Four diacritics drawing the pitch contour.
Also known as: Pinyin tones, Mandarin tone marks
The four accent marks written over a vowel in Hanyu Pinyin to show the tone of a Mandarin syllable.
Show which of the four Mandarin tones a syllable carries.
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Draw the pitch contour they stand for, which is unusual among diacritics: the level tone is a flat bar, the rising tone slopes up, the dipping tone falls and rises, and the falling tone slopes down, so the mark is a small graph of the sound rather than an arbitrary label.
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Are placed on a stated vowel when a syllable has several, by a rule rather than by ear: the mark goes on a or e where present, on the o of ou, and otherwise on the last vowel written.
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Four small marks set above a vowel: a level bar, a stroke rising to the right, a stroke that dips and rises, and a stroke falling to the right.
The other phonetic notation for the same language.