0 one of the speech sounds or letters of the alphabet that is not a vowel. Consonants are pronounced by stopping the air from flowing easily through the mouth, especially by closing the lips or touching the teeth with the tongue. -- 辅音；辅音字母
Don't you hate the way she speaks, pronouncing each single consonant so precisely.
She's got some unpronounceable name that seems to be all consonants.
Moreover, consonant substitutions preserved more articulatory-phonetic features in nonword repetition than in serial recall.
If the final syllable does not have a long vowel or end in two or more consonants, the initial syllable is stressed.
If there is no such syllable, the syllable with a single coda consonant is stressed.
However, aspirated consonants were not significantly different between the two speech styles.
The majority of nasal consonants were produced as singleton (non-geminates) in both speech styles.
Point-to-point intra-rater and inter-rater reliability (by a person trained in phonetics) checks on initial consonants were conducted on 10 % of the data.
