initial consonant

基本解釋

Both hands sign language people also name to refer to the type syllable, the initial consonant hit with the right hand, the final hits with the left hand, about puts together a syllable.
雙手指語人們也稱指式音節(jié)，聲母用右手打，韻母用左手打，左右相拼成一音節(jié)。
Thus, with regard to the tonal domain of Beijing Mandarin monosyllable in isolation, not only the initial voiced consonant and medial, but also the nasal coda and the vocalic ending are excluded;
縂而言之，對(duì)北京話單說的聲調(diào)來說，不僅可以把濁輔音聲母或介音，而且也可以把鼻音韻尾或元音韻尾排除在聲調(diào)分佈區(qū)之外，因而，北京話單說的聲調(diào)信息主要由主要元音及其過渡攜帶。
The consonant that begins a syllable is called an initial and there are 21 of them in modern Chinese(the international Phonetic Alphabet in the brackets).
一個(gè)音節(jié)開頭的輔音叫做聲母?，F(xiàn)代漢語一共有21個(gè)聲母（方括弧內(nèi)是國(guó)際音標(biāo)）。