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What are the similarities and differences between traditional phonetics and modern Chinese consonants?

Traditional phonetics, the consonants are also called "sound, new, sound new, sound new", or "body language, body text, letter" and so on. The ancients did not have phonetic symbols and used a Chinese character to represent a consonant, called a letter. A letter to regulate the vowel of the same class of words, such as [p] beginning with the word "help Bo Beibu fill the edge" and so on, choose "help" for these words read as a representative of the vowel of the word (mother), known as "help mother ". Today, the earliest known letters were produced in the late Tang Dynasty, monks introduced the concept of "letters" from Sanskrit to specifically refer to the representative characters of the Chinese consonants. Also inspired by the Sanskrit alphabet "Siddhartha" in the "body text" (i.e., consonants), with reference to the Tibetan alphabet system to create a letter that represents the Chinese vowel system. The thirty-six letters completely summarize and display the consonant system of Chinese in the late Tang and early Song dynasties, with great applied and methodological value, which is a remarkable contribution in traditional phonetics. The 36 letters can also be divided into "systems" according to the broad categories of parts of speech, and "groups" under the systems, such as the "gang system" which refers to the "gang pang and ming" (gang group) and the "gang group" (gang group). For example, the "gang system" refers to two groups of labial consonants, namely "gang pang and ming" (gang group) and "non-shiki feng wei" (non-group), while the "see system" has only four consonants, namely "see xi qun qi", and the rest of the concepts are analogous. In addition, there are concepts related to consonants, such as sound class. The term "sound class" refers to the classification of the characters on the antithesis, which is not exactly the same as the meaning of consonants.

The vocative in modern Chinese refers to the part of a syllable that lies in front of the vowel, mostly the consonant at the beginning of the syllable. For example: chunguang (spring), hanzu (Chinese). Some syllables do not start with a consonant, the part before the vowel is zero, customarily called "zero vowel". Examples are: an, e, ying. There are no consonants at the beginning of the syllable, even if it is a zero-vowel syllable.