What does departing tone mean?

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departing tone

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English

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One of the four tones of Middle and modern Chinese, written with a grave accent (`).

departing tones (plural)

entering tone rising tone

What does departing tone mean?: One of the four tones of Middle and modern Chinese, written with a grave accent (`).

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