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Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st... by sanqui on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:28PM (#18866655)
Homonyms are words that are pronounced the same way. These words use different tones.
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Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st... by FabHK on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:23PM (#18870061)
Good point.

Beyond that, FWIW, homophones are words that are pronounced the same way. Homonyms are pronounced and spelt the same way. I guess in the context of Chinese (where disambiguation by character is the big issue), one should speak of homophones?

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Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st... by simplify on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:42PM (#18866794)
There are four tones. The poem has 33 unique words.
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