







rising tone
rising intonation
In English, some questions have a rising intonation.
Listen to these sentences spoken first with rising and then with falling intonation.

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Open the tool →升调 (shēng diào) means “rising tone, rising intonation”.
升调 is pronounced shēng diào in Mandarin Chinese.
“rising tone” is 升调 (shēng diào) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 升调, each with pinyin and an English translation.