pronunciation / literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character

speech sounds / pronunciation / colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character / phonetic / audio / voice / (Internet) to voice chat / voice message

(dialectal pronunciation of 俊) / cool / neat

to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters using Pinyin or Bopomofo etc / phonetic notation / (specifically) Bopomofo (abbr. for 注音符號｜注音符号)

to pronounce / pronunciation / to emit sound

pronunciation; reading (of a Chinese character)

standard pronunciation / to correct sb's pronunciation

ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character / classical speech sounds

reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀｜训读. For example, 山 has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)

to read extensively and thoroughly / nonstandard pronunciation of a Chinese character, e.g. the reading [hao4] in 愛好｜爱好 rather than the usual [hao3]

a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子 may be pronounced as its synonym 色子, and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩｜两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀｜音读. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)

variant pronunciation (when the same character has more than one reading)

modern (i.e. not ancient) pronunciation of a Chinese character

humorous pronunciation of 著急｜着急

"Shiming", late Han dictionary, containing 1502 entries, using puns on the pronunciation of headwords to explain their meaning

standard (unified) pronunciation of a character with multiple readings, as stipulated by the PRC Ministry of Education in 1985

(linguistics) phonological reduction; lazy pronunciation; allegro speech

colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character

(neologism) (slang) it's none of your business (imitation of an accented pronunciation of 與你無關｜与你无关)

nonstandard / incorrect / (of one's speech) poor; woeful (not in keeping with correct pronunciation or usage)

(of Chinese pronunciation) a vowel followed by a nasal consonant

(Internet slang) transcription of "not at all" – English words in a song promoting the 2008 Beijing Olympics sung by Huang Xiaoming 黃曉明｜黄晓明, who became a laughing stock in China because his pronunciation was perceived as embarrassingly bad / to be a laughing stock / to make a fool of oneself (i.e. equivalent to 鬧笑話｜闹笑话)

indistinct in one's speech / defective in one's pronunciation

(vulgar) your mom's a prostitute (from Sichuan pronunciation of 媽賣屄｜妈卖屄)

pronunciation of a character other than the standard / lit. broken reading

(orthography) consistent words (e.g. "dean", "bean", and "lean", where "-ean" is pronounced the same in each case) / consistent characters (e.g. 搖｜摇, 遙｜遥 and 謠｜谣, which share a phonetic component that reliably indicates that the pronunciation of the character is yáo)

Beijing pronunciation

official state pronunciation

lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times / Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)

derivation of a Chinese loanword from Japanese by using the same characters (or variants) but applying Chinese pronunciation (e.g. 場合｜场合, derived from Japanese 場合, pronounced "ba'ai")

literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character

standard pronunciation / standard tone (e.g. A = 440 Hz)

word having alternative pronunciations