Wiktionary:About Chinese/Xiang

Wiktionary uses the following system to transcribe Changsha dialect (old- and new-styles) of Xiang Chinese. See Module:hsn-pron for the codes.

Tone sandhi
\text{dark level }[33]\\ \text{light level }[13]\\ \text{checked }[24] \end{Bmatrix} + \text{checked }[24] \to \begin{Bmatrix} \text{dark level }[33]\\ \text{light level }[13]\\ \text{checked }[24] \end{Bmatrix} + [44]$$
 * $$\text{light level }[13] + \text{dark departing }[45] \to [\text{close to 24, still distinguishable from checked}] + \text{dark departing }[45]$$
 * (in quick speech) $$\begin{Bmatrix}