重音

zhòngyīn

noun #24,450

Measure Word

一个重音 gè

Meanings

1 accent
2 stress
3 emphasis (in pronunciation)

Characters

heavy / important

Examples

这个单词的重音在第二个音节。

Zhège dāncí de zhòngyīn zài dì èr gè yīnjié.

The stress in this word is on the second syllable.

老师纠正了我的重音。

Lǎoshī jiūzhèng le wǒ de zhòngyīn.

The teacher corrected my accent.

Tips

usage

重音 covers both lexical stress (as in English words) and sentence-level emphasis. In Chinese phonetics, it often refers to the stressed syllable within a polysyllabic word or phrase, though Mandarin is not stress-timed like English.

Stroke Order

重 zhòng

音 yīn