🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

发音器官

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fāyīn qìguān

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Articulator/ɑːrˈtɪk.jə.leɪ.tər/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"舌头是语音中最重要的发音器官之一。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person or thing that articulates, expresses, or gives clear form to ideas, feelings, or policies.

    "She proved to be a powerful articulator of the community's core grievances."
  2. 2

    In phonetics, a speech organ (such as the tongue, lips, or palate) used to produce speech sounds by obstructing or modifying the vocal tract.

    "The tongue acts as the primary active articulator in shaping vowel sounds."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin verb articulatus (to divide into joints, utter distinctly), stemming from Latin articulus meaning 'joint'. It entered English in the late 16th century via the verb articulate, evolving to describe both biological organs of speech and mechanical devices that imitate jointed movement.

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