语调

語調
yǔdiào
noun #14,965

Meanings

  1. 1 intonation
  2. 2 tone of voice

Examples

Tā shuōhuà de yǔdiào tīng qǐlái hěn bù gāoxìng.
His tone of voice sounded very unhappy.
Xué Zhōngwén yào zhùyì yǔdiào de biànhuà.
When learning Chinese, you need to pay attention to changes in intonation.

Tips

usage
语调 refers to sentence-level intonation (rising for questions, falling for statements), distinct from 声调 (shēngdiào) which refers to the four lexical tones of individual syllables in Mandarin.

Stroke Order

tiáo