Sentence Composition
| 1 | 約翰 | Yuēhàn |
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| 2 | 在台 | zài Tái | in Taiwan (used attributively) |
| =3 | 上 | shǎng | used in 上声 shǎngshēng |
| =3 | 上 | shàng |
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| 4 | 唱 | chàng |
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| =5 | 了 | le |
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| =5 | 了 | liǎo |
| =5 | 了 | liǎo |
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| =5 | 了 | liào | unofficial variant of 瞭 liào |
| =6 | 甚 | shén | variant of 什 shén |
| =6 | 甚 | shèn |
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| =7 | 麼 | má | exclamatory final particle |
| =7 | 麼 | ma | interrogative final particle |
| =7 | 麼 | me | suffix, used to form interrogative 什么 shénme, what?, indefinite 这么 zhème thus, etc |
| =7 | 麼 | mó |
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| =8 | 歌 | gē | (bound form) to sing |
| =8 | 歌 | gē | variant of 歌 gē |