阳平声 (陽平聲) yángpíngshēng
          
              yángpíngshēng 
              
              noun 
              evenly rising tone; second tone 
              Domain: Linguistics 语言学
              
                , Subdomain: Phonetics 
              
              
                , Concept: Tone 声调
              
              
              
                Notes: The second of the four tones in Mandarin, which rises in intensity towards the end and is shorter in duration than the first tone. It is [35] in Chao's notation (Norman 1988, pp. 145-148).