声せい調ちょう

noun

tone of voice

Refers to the emotional or attitudinal quality of a person's voice, not to linguistic tone.

• 彼かれの声せい調ちょうから怒おこっているのがわかった。

  I could tell from his tone of voice that he was angry.

noun

tone (linguistics)

Linguistic term for pitch patterns that distinguish word meanings, as in Chinese or Vietnamese.

• 中ちゅう国ごく語ごには四よっつの声せい調ちょうがある。

  Chinese has four tones.