陽平
阳平
yángpíng
evenly rising tone, the second tone of putonghua
- (archaic) Yangping Commandery (near present-day Qingfeng County, Henan)
- (phonology) light level tone, a tone in various modern Chinese varieties, generally corresponding to the level tone and voiced onset in Middle Chinese, e.g. tone 2 (/˧˥/) in Standard Mandarin (marked with an acute accent ⟨´⟩ in Hanyu Pinyin and bopomofo), tone 4 (/˨˩/) in Guangzhou Cantonese, tone 2 (/˩/) in Meixian Hakka, and tone 5 (/˨˦/) in Xiamen/Taiwanese Hokkien (marked with a circumflex ⟨ˆ⟩ in Pe̍h-ōe-jī)
- (～調, ～聲) (phonology) light level tone, a tone in various modern Chinese varieties, generally corresponding to the level tone and voiced onset in Middle Chinese, e.g. tone 2 (/˧˥/) in Standard Mandarin (marked with an acute accent ⟨´⟩ in Hanyu Pinyin and bopomofo), tone 4 (/˨˩/) in Guangzhou Cantonese, tone 2 (/˩/) in Meixian Hakka, and tone 5 (/˨˦/) in Xiamen/Taiwanese Hokkien (marked with a circumflex ⟨ˆ⟩ in Pe̍h-ōe-jī)
- Yangping Commandery (near present-day Qingfeng County, Henan)