fricative

IPA/ˈfrɪkətɪv/
IPA/ˈfrɪkətɪv/

fricative — 名詞

  • fricativesingular
  • fricativesplural

1. a type of consonant whose hissing or rubbing quality comes from squeezing breath

1.名詞C2
釋義

擦音；摩擦音

氣流摩擦窄縫產生的子音

a type of consonant whose hissing or rubbing quality comes from squeezing breath through a small gap somewhere in the mouth — the /f/ at the start of fish and the /s/ at the end of bus are both examples.

例句

Hannah's phonetics professor explained that English has nine fricatives, including the /v/ in voice.

Hannah 的語音學教授解釋，英語共有九個擦音，包括 voice 開頭的 /v/。

countable noun with numeric quantifier

Children often confuse the two fricatives at the start of thin and sin.

孩子常會把 thin 和 sin 開頭的兩個擦音搞混。

plural use comparing sounds

常見搭配
  • voiced fricative
  • voiceless fricative
  • dental fricative
  • labiodental fricative
同義詞
  • spirant

    older technical term for the same class of sounds; rare in modern textbooks

  • sibilant

    narrower term covering only hissing fricatives like /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/

反義詞
  • stop

    consonant made by blocking the airflow completely, like /p/ or /t/

  • plosive

    another name for a stop consonant

用法筆記

Almost exclusively used in linguistics and speech therapy. Subject of examples is usually a learner, teacher, or therapist; objects are usually specific sounds shown by IPA symbols (/f/, /s/, /ʃ/) or example words.

常見錯誤

The letter f is a fricative.
The sound /f/ is a fricative.
fricative names a speech sound, not a written letter.

同根字

常見搭配

名詞搭配

  • fricative consonant
  • fricative sound

常用片語

  • voiced fricative
  • voiceless fricative
  • dental fricative
  • labiodental fricative
  • alveolar fricative