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Essentially, every {{Tone|4}} word was written as if it was in {{Tone|8}} (the neutral 8th tone, reserved for particles). Since verbs and particles are different lexical classes, this didn't cause any ambiguity. If you saw a verb in {{Tone|8}}, you knew it was actually an implicit {{Tone|4}}. | Essentially, every {{Tone|4}} word was written as if it was in {{Tone|8}} (the neutral 8th tone, reserved for particles). Since verbs and particles are different lexical classes, this didn't cause any ambiguity. If you saw a verb in {{Tone|8}}, you knew it was actually an implicit {{Tone|4}}. | ||
Perhaps inspired by this practice, the modern falling tone {{Done|1}} is denoted by the absence of a diacritic. See [[Tone]]s. | |||