syllable

/ˈsɪləbəl/

a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme

Chinese meaning: 音节

The word 'banana' has three syllables: ba-na-na.

单词 'banana' 有三个音节：ba-na-na。

In poetry, the number of syllables per line often follows a pattern.

在诗歌中，每行的音节数通常遵循一种模式。