In addition, there is a split in entering tone according to vowel length, with Cantonese mid-entering tone for short vowels like " bt, pt ".
12.
Wencheng shares the long vowels of Wenzhonese entering tone ( spelled " puu " above ) as well as the abrupt glottal stops of the " sheng " tones.
13.
Some " departing tone " syllables have cognates in the " entering tone " syllables, which feature a-p,-t,-k in Middle Chinese and Southern Chinese varieties.
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The entering tone is a special case for when a syllable ends with [ p ], [ t ], or [ k ]; those syllables have a shorter quality than others.
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Middle Chinese entering tone syllables ending in whose vowel clusters have become front high vowels like and shifts to syllables with finals in some of the modern Hakka, as seen in the following table.
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The entering'tones', for example, are distinct only because they are checked by a final stop consonant, not because they have a tone contour that contrasts with non-entering tones.
17.
When in either of the two level tones, in the rising tone, or in the light entering tone, the rime this time does not change; this rime is called the close rime.
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But in the Fuqing dialect, when the rime is in either one of the departing tones or in the dark entering tone, the medial vowel changes to another, the rime being called the open rime.
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Syllables in the checked tone are distributed between the other tones, but placed after the other syllables with labels such as ( " r�shng zu?q�shng " " entering tone makes departing tone " ).
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The " Language Atlas of China " calls the remainder of Mandarin a " supergroup ", divided into eight dialect groups distinguished by their treatment of the Middle Chinese entering tone ( see Tones below ):
