上聲
soeng5 sing1included in 2 dictionaries
soeng5 sing1
· included in 2 dictionaries維基辭典YueWord
rising tone (one of the four tones in Middle Chinese, also a tone in various modern varieties, e.g. tone 3 (/˨˩˦/) in Standard Mandarin (marked with a caron [ ˇ ] in Hanyu Pinyin and bopomofo), tone 3 in Meixian Hakka (/˧˩/), and tone 2 in Xiamen/Taiwanese Hokkien (/˥˧/))
Examples
平聲哀而安,上聲厲而舉,去聲清而遠,入聲直而促。
Level tone is sad and stable. Rising tone is strident and rising. Departing tone is clear and distant. Entering tone is straight and abrupt.