A112350 Pronunciation tones in Mandarin for the characters in the Chinese word for n.

2, 1, 4, 1, 4, 3, 4, 1, 1, 3, 2, 21, 24, 21, 24, 23, 24, 21, 21, 23, 42, 421, 424, 421, 424, 423, 424, 421, 421, 423, 12, 121, 124, 121, 124, 123, 124, 121, 121, 123, 42, 421, 424, 421, 424, 423, 424, 421, 421, 423, 32, 321, 324, 321, 324, 323, 324, 321, 321, 323, 42

Offset

0,1

Comments

Mandarin Chinese has four tones. The first tone is a flat, high tone. The second tone is a rising tone. The third tone first falls a little and then rises. The fourth tone is a falling tone.

References

Any Chinese dictionary.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..60.

Index entries for sequences related to number of letters in n

Example

a(21) = 421 because the characters in the Chinese word for 21, "er shi yi", are pronounced with the fourth, second and first tone, respectively.

Crossrefs

Cf. A112348, A112350, A030166.

Sequence in context: A035092 A160598 A107457 * A321437 A319711 A319713

Adjacent sequences: A112347 A112348 A112349 * A112351 A112352 A112353

Keyword

nonn,word

Author

Wei Ji Ma (weijima(AT)gmail.com), Sep 05 2005

Status

approved