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2700 1500 7 Tone-meaning Relationships of Chinese Characters in Tang Poems Synonymy of Characters with Level and Falling Tones Liu Ziyu 1 Liu Songchuan 2 1.Department of Chinese Language and Literature PKU& Center of Chinese Linguistic PKU, Beijing 100871, China; 2.Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hubei Univerisity,Wuhan 430062, China Abstract This article analyzes 48 characters in Tang poems which have the same meaning with two tones: level and falling tones. Firstly, level and falling tones of these characters differ in whether they are commonly used or not. The uncommonly used tones are also important as they reflect the metrics of the Tang poems. In the 48 characters, 31 are commonly pronounced in level tone, while 17 in falling tone. The commonly used tones are inherited when there is only one pronunciation of the character in modern Chinese. Secondly, there are 8 nouns, 9 verb-noun conversion words, 30 verbs in these characters, and 1 adverb. This phonetic-semantic relation helps to master the usages of these characters. Thirdly, the same meaning of level and falling tones of one character can meet the demand of metrics by providing poets with more choices. This phenomenon started in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and flourished in Tang Dynasty, after which it has still continued, although only in a few of commonly used characters. Key Words Level and Oblique Tones; Synonymy of Characters with Level and Falling Tones; Common and Uncommon Pronunciations; Metrics of Level and Oblique Tones 1958 1 117