initial consonant

基本解释

Both hands sign language people also name to refer to the type syllable, the initial consonant hit with the right hand, the final hits with the left hand, about puts together a syllable.
双手指语人们也称指式音节，声母用右手打，韵母用左手打，左右相拼成一音节。
Thus, with regard to the tonal domain of Beijing Mandarin monosyllable in isolation, not only the initial voiced consonant and medial, but also the nasal coda and the vocalic ending are excluded;
总而言之，对北京话单说的声调来说，不仅可以把浊辅音声母或介音，而且也可以把鼻音韵尾或元音韵尾排除在声调分布区之外，因而，北京话单说的声调信息主要由主要元音及其过渡携带。
The consonant that begins a syllable is called an initial and there are 21 of them in modern Chinese(the international Phonetic Alphabet in the brackets).
一个音节开头的辅音叫做声母。现代汉语一共有21个声母（方括弧内是国际音标）。