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Additional Mandarin definitions?[edit]

Are these additional Mandarin definitions?

  • beautiful sound
  • appeal
  • charm
  • in Chinese phonetics, the medial and final sound of a syllable (i.e. excluding the initial consonant)

For further insight on the origins, variations and etymology of 韻 in the context of poetry, see the article "The Synesthesia of Sinitic Esthetics and Its Indic Resonances" by Victor H. Mair. [1]

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  1. ^ [http://www.jstor.org/stable/25478427 The Synesthesia of Sinitic Esthetics and Its Indic Resonances : Victor H. Mair], Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR).