# 隔音符號
## Chinese

| | | to separate; to stand or lie between; to divideto separate; to stand or lie between; to divide; to cut off | sound; noise; news | mark; symbol; signmark; symbol; sign; insignia |
| trad. (隔音符號) | trad. (隔音符號) | 隔 | 音 | 符號 |
| simp. (隔音符号) | simp. (隔音符号) | 隔 | 音 | 符号 |
* 隔音符號

### Etymology

First used in the draft of the Scheme for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet (漢語拼音方案) published in February 1956 by the Committee for the Reform of the Chinese Written Language (中國文字改革委員會).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): géyīn fúhào
    (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜˊ ㄧㄣ ㄈㄨˊ ㄏㄠˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gaak$^3$ jam$^1$ fu$^4$ hou$^{6-2}$ / gaak$^3$ jam$^1$ fu$^4$ hou$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: géyīn fúhào
*** Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˊ ㄧㄣ ㄈㄨˊ ㄏㄠˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: géyin fúhào
*** Wade–Giles: ko$^2$-yin$^1$ fu$^2$-hao$^4$
*** Yale: gé-yīn fú-hàu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gerin fwuhaw
*** Palladius: гэинь фухао (gɛinʹ fuxao)
*** Sinological IPA : /kɤ³⁵ in⁵⁵ fu³⁵ xɑʊ̯⁵¹/
** (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: géyīnfúhàor
*** Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˊ ㄧㄣ ㄈㄨˊ ㄏㄠˋㄦ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: géyinfúhàor
*** Wade–Giles: ko$^2$-yin$^1$-fu$^2$-hao$^4$-ʼrh
*** Yale: gé-yīn-fú-hàur
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gerinfwuhawl
*** Palladius: гэиньфухаор (gɛinʹfuxaor)
*** Sinological IPA : /kɤ³⁵ in⁵⁵ fu³⁵ xaʊ̯ɻʷ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gaak$^3$ jam$^1$ fu$^4$ hou$^{6-2}$ / gaak$^3$ jam$^1$ fu$^4$ hou$^6$
*** Yale: gaak yām fùh hóu / gaak yām fùh houh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gaak$^8$ jam$^1$ fu$^4$ hou$^{6-2}$ / gaak$^8$ jam$^1$ fu$^4$ hou$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gag$^3$ yem$^1$ fu$^4$ hou$^{6-2}$ / gag$^3$ yem$^1$ fu$^4$ hou$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /kaːk̚³ jɐm⁵⁵ fuː²¹ hou̯²²⁻³⁵/, /kaːk̚³ jɐm⁵⁵ fuː²¹ hou̯²²/

### Noun

隔音符號
* apostrophe used to divide syllables within a word to avoid ambiguity in various alphabetic systems used in China; in pinyin, to be used between two syllables (unless a hyphen is being used) whenever the second syllable begins with an a, o or e (regardless of whether any ambiguity exists) and not in any other circumstance
    From: 1958, 汉语拼音方案 (Scheme for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet), section 5
    a, o, e kāitóu de yīnjié liánjiē zài qítā yīnjié hòumiàn de shíhou, rúguǒ yīnjié de jièxiàn fāshēng hùnxiáo, yòng géyīn fúhào (’) gékāi, lìrú: pi’ ao (pí'ǎo). [Pinyin]
    [In Hanyu Pinyin], when a syllable beginning in a, o or e is preceded by another syllable, if the division between the syllables is unclear, use the syllable-dividing apostrophe (’) to divide [the syllables]. For example: pi’ao 皮襖／皮袄 (pí'ǎo).
    From: 1981, 壮文方案（修订案）
    Zhuàngwén de duōyīncí zhǔyào shì gēnjù shēngyùn jiégòu hé shēngdiào fúhào lái shíbié yīnjié...... Dāng jù cǐ réng bùhǎo qūfēn yīnjié shí, jiù děi lìyòng géyīn fúhào “’” lái huàfēn [Pinyin]
    In Zhuang, syllables in multisyllabic words are distinguished according to the syllable structure and tone symbols... When the syllables still cannot be distinguished accordingly, an apostrophe "'" needs to be used to divide the syllables

#### Synonyms

* (obsolete) 界音符號／界音符号 (jièyīn fúhào)

#### See also

* 撇號／撇号 (piěhào)
* 聲調符號／声调符号 (shēngdiào fúhào)

### Further reading

* Apostrophes in Hanyu Pinyin: when and where to use them, Pīnyīn.info