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China's Kingdom of Characters with Jing Tsu

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Tones in Chinese

Tones are a quality of chinese language that the it's the pitch at which you say a particular part of a word. Ashy traditionally is said to have nine tones, basy has four and bors basy just four. When you go to the south,. the tones become more because thacer lotof a is just historically the case. And so you have in tian wor the ming, the ming, big totoa cutte rangs there. And that you have also several more tones the mandarin. In english, we hear a kind of question, yes and then an emphatic yes. But in chinese, this will be the difference in tones. So

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