韻頭

Chinese

		rhyme	head; (noun suffix)
trad. (韻頭)		韻	頭
simp. (韵头)		韵	头

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yùntóu

(Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˋ ㄊㄡˊ
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): yun-thèu

(Hailu, HRS): rhun^˖ teu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yùntóu
  - Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˋ ㄊㄡˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yùntóu
  - Wade–Giles: yün⁴-tʻou²
  - Yale: yùn-tóu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yunntour
  - Palladius: юньтоу (junʹtou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn⁵¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yun-thèu
  - Hakka Romanization System: iun teu^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yun⁴ teu²
  - Sinological IPA: /i̯un⁵⁵ tʰeu̯¹¹/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yun-thèu
  - Hakka Romanization System: (r)iun teu^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yun⁴ teu²
  - Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯un⁵⁵ tʰeu̯¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: rhun^˖ teu
  - Sinological IPA: /ʒun³³ tʰeu⁵⁵/

Noun

韻頭

(phonetics, phonology) onglide, the part of the inlaut which is not the nucleus
Holonym: 韻母 / 韵母 (yùnmǔ, “all the part of the syllable after the onset, all of the syllable but the anlaut”)

Coordinate terms: 韻腹 / 韵腹 (yùnfù, “main vowel which is most distinctly pronounced, nuclear vowel”), 韻尾 / 韵尾 (yùnwěi, “coda, auslaut”), 聲母 / 声母 (shēngmǔ, “anlaut”)

References

“韻頭”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
徐兆泉 (2009), “韻頭”, in 臺灣四縣腔海陸腔客家話辭典 [Hakka Dictionary of Taiwan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hakka), Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc..