The consonant that begins a syllable is called an initial and there are 21 of them in modern Chinese (the international Phonetic Alphabet in the brackets).
一个音节开头的辅音叫做声母。现代汉语一共有21个声母(方括弧内是国际音标)。
The mutation of the Chinese dialect includes the change of the initial or the final of a syllable and the tones in different language environments.
汉语方言的变声、变韵、变调，以及轻声、儿化及其他小称音变等，可统称为语流音变。
A syllable in the Modern Chinese is composed of an initial, a final and a tone.
现代汉语的音节由声母、韵母和声调组成。
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