







alternative reading
uncommon pronunciation
Variant pronunciation is one of the most important linguistic phenomena in ancient Chinese. Variant pronunciation is also known as breaking sound.
With his delightful violation of a reader's conventional trust, Hawkes creates his own trademark of his fictions throughout his career---the paradoxical mixture of comedy and terror.

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Open the tool →破读 (pò dú) means “alternative reading, uncommon pronunciation”.
破读 is pronounced pò dú in Mandarin Chinese.
“alternative reading” is 破读 (pò dú) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 破读, each with pinyin and an English translation.