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Xihe is the atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of various Chinese names. It may refer to: Mythology *Xihe (deity) (), a Chinese solar deity Science * Chinese H-alpha Solar Explorer, or Xihe, a solar observatory Places * Xihe Commentary (西河郡), a former commentary of imperial China around Fenyang, Shanxi *Xihe District (细河区), a district in Fuxin, Liaoning, China *Xihe County (西和县), a county in Gansu, China *HD 173416 (star), Constellation Lyra; a G8-type giant star; named after the Chinese solar deity Towns * Xihe, Chongqing (西河), in Tongliang County, Chongqing, China * Xihe, Yongjing County (西河), in Yongjing County, Gansu, China * Xihe, Dabu County (西河), in Dabu County, Guangdong, China * Xihe, Shaoguan (西河), in Wujiang District, Shaoguan, Guangdong, China * Xihe, Guangxi (西河), in Mengshan County, Guangxi, China * Xihe, Heilongjiang (西河), in Keshan County, Heilongjiang, China * Xihe, Suizhou (), in Zengdu Distric ...
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Chinese Tones
The phonology of Standard Chinese has historically derived from the Beijing dialect of Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin. However, pronunciation varies widely among speakers, who may introduce elements of their local Varieties of Chinese, varieties. Television and radio announcers are chosen for their ability to affect a standard Accent (phonetics), accent. Elements of the sound system include not only the segment (linguistics), segments—e.g. vowels and consonants—of the language, but also the tone (linguistics), tones applied to each syllable. In addition to its four main tones, Standard Chinese has a neutral tone that appears on weak syllables. This article uses the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to compare the phonetic values corresponding to syllables romanized with pinyin. Consonants The sounds shown in parentheses are sometimes not analyzed as separate phonemes; for more on these, see below. Excluding these, and excluding the glide (linguistics), glides , , and , ther ...
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