The sample sentences below, each consisting of six syllables, are illustrative:

Each line within the poem consists of only eight syllables.

Roots are sometimes monosyllabic, but mostly disyllabic or a word consisting of two syllables.

This also occurs in the middle syllables of compound words consisting of 3 or more syllables.

If the given name consists of two syllables, it should be written as one: Wáng Jiàngguó.

Generally, nonderived noun and verb stems consist of between 1-4 syllables.

An example is the following verse (20.13) in the Ghanākṣarī metre, which consists of 32 syllables in every foot.

It consists of four syllables, with one of the syllables being long and the other three short.

It is pronounced Pra-kash and consists of 7 letters and 2 syllables.

The local people had a dialect consisting of 18 syllables.