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.
雙手指語人們也稱指式音節，聲母用右手打，韻母用左手打，左右相拼成一音節。
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;
縂而言之，對北京話單說的聲調來說，不僅可以把濁輔音聲母或介音，而且也可以把鼻音韻尾或元音韻尾排除在聲調分佈區之外，因而，北京話單說的聲調信息主要由主要元音及其過渡攜帶。
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).
一個音節開頭的輔音叫做聲母。現代漢語一共有21個聲母（方括弧內是國際音標）。