| nonsyllabic | (adj) not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong), Syn. unsyllabic, Ant. syllabic |
| nonsyllabic | (adj) (of speech sounds) not forming or capable of forming the nucleus of a syllable, Ant. syllabic |
| 儿化 | [儿 化 / 兒 化] nonsyllabic final r 儿 added to a word in spoken Chinese; also called retroflex final or r-ization #68,452 [Add to Longdo] |