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Five voices

五声 〔五聲〕 wǔ shēng

The five qualities of the voice, each having a five-phase ascription: shouting (liver-wood), laughing (heart-fire), singing (spleen-earth), wailing (lung-metal), and groaning (kidney-water). These are each associated with a viscus through the five phases.

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