Standard Chinese
Many Hui dialects have diphthongs with a higher lengthened first part. For example, ("speech") is in Xiuning County (Standard Chinese ), ("yard") is in Xiuning County (Standard Chinese ); ("knot") is in Yi County (Standard Chinese ), ("agreement") is in Yi County (Standard Chinese ). A few areas take this to extremes. For example, Likou in Qimen County has for ("rice") (Standard Chinese ), with the appearing directly as a result of the lengthened, nasalized .