翘舌音

retroflex sound (e.g. in Mandarin zh, ch, sh, r)

Characters and words in 翘舌音

outstanding / to raise

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) anxiously awaits her outstanding (翘) lover, Tang Yao (尧), in the aorta's kitchen (ao2). She greets him by raising (翘) her feather (羽) to give him an idea of the things to come.
to stick up / to rise on one end / to tilt

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) and Tang Yao (尧) are happily playing on a see-saw (翘) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4). To tilt (翘) the see-saw they are waving with feathers (羽) to create enough momentum.
used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"
tongue

= + : Sherlock Holmes squashed his tongue under a kilo just inside the elevator's kitchen! He tries to stem the kilo with a mandarin, but not very successfully.
coronal consonants of Middle Chinese
sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a loudspeaker.

= + : Maud Younger and the Sun opened a pop-up store in front of the encampment. They sell vases and advertise them using loudspeakers, playing loud music and dancing to it.

Words with 翘舌音

翘舌音 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 翘舌音

翘舌音 currently does not appear in any sentence.