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# syllabic

«syllabic» in Mova's school dictionary: **about syllables, the beats or sound parts that words are…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (syllabic)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Syllabic means about syllables, the beats or sound parts that words are divided into: "hap-py" has two syllables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/syllabic/#m1)

2) A syllabic writing system (a syllabary) uses one symbol for each syllable, like Japanese kana or the Cherokee syllabary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/syllabic/#m2)

3) (phonetics) A syllabic sound, like the "n" in "button" or "l" in "bottle", makes a syllable on its own without a vowel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/syllabic/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In English and phonics lessons pupils clap syllables to read and spell longer words; in poetry, syllable counts matter for haiku (5-7-5) and for rhythm. In language lessons, children learn that some scripts are syllabic, some alphabetic (one letter per sound), and Chinese is mostly logographic. Phrases: "syllabic script", "syllabic structure", "syllabic verse".

### examples

- Japanese hiragana is a syllabic script. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/syllabic/#x1)
- We clapped the syllabic beats of our names. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/syllabic/#x2)
- A haiku has a strict syllabic pattern: 5, 7, 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/syllabic/#x3)
- The Cherokee leader Sequoyah invented a syllabic writing system. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/syllabic/#x4)
- In "bottle", the final l is syllabic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/syllabic/#x5)
- Syllabic poems count syllables, not stresses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/syllabic/#x6)
- Breaking a long word into syllabic parts helps you spell it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/syllabic/#x7)

### note

Pronounced "si-LAB-ik". Noun: syllable; plural syllables. An alphabet (like English) is not syllabic: each letter stands for a sound, not a whole syllable.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «syllabic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/syllabic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.