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Re:Linux TTY font for Chinese, but treat it as a syllabic wr... by lifthrasiir on Thursday March 14, 2024 @12:10AM (#39700528)
> syllables considering tone (is there a word for this?)

Prosodic units [1], which happen to be syllables with tones in Chinese. (In other languages such suprasegmental features can spread throughout multiple syllables, so a single prosodic unit would contain all of them.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosodic_unit

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