Is 省 3rd tone or 1st tone in 中国共有二十三个省？
Is 省 3rd tone or 1st tone in 中国共有二十三个省？
All I want is the tone of 省! Please do not turn this into a debate about if the number is right or not, I simply copied the sentence from a uni text. The sentence does not necessarily represent my own view!!
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The character is 3rd tone.
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Well, I'd like to point out that a character's tone never changes unless it means a different thing. For example when "省" means "province", it is always "sheng3".
However there is an exception. When two 3rd-tone characters meet together, the previous character's tone change to the 2nd tone, which sounds more fluent, and is also easier to pronounce. (You can try to pronounce two 3rd-tone characters together, it's rather hard.) For example, the word "省长", which means the governer of a province, is pronounced like "sheng2zhang3", but is marked like "shěng zhǎng".
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