The Quzhou dialect (è¡¢å·Â話; pronounced in the Quzhou dialect) is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in Quzhou, China.
The Quzhou dialect is considered to have seven tones. However, since the tone split from Middle Chinese, characters still depend on the voicing of the initial consonant. These constitute just three phonemic tones: ping, shang, and qu. (Ru syllables are phonemically toneless.)
The first example can be compared with Japanese: ãÂÂãªãÂÂã¯ç§Âã®åÂÂéÂÂã ãÂÂãÂÂ(anata wa watashi no tomodachi dayo.) Here, å resembles Japanese ã ã (dayo).