tone contour

Tone contours are numbers that represent the way pitch varies over a syllable. Their invention is attributed Yuen Ren Chao. If you visualise a stave of music, there are five horizontal lines. Each representing a different pitch level. The pitch levels are numbered from 1 to 5, the lowest being 1 and the highest being 5. The Standard Mandarin third tone has a tone contour /214/, showing a pitch that dips and then rises. Examples of level tone contours are /11/, /22/, /33/, /44/ and /55/. Falling tone contours include /51/, /31/, /53/, etc. Rising tone contours include /13/, /35/, /15/, etc.

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