Early Western deions of Manchu phonology, particularly those made by speakers of languages such as <U>French</U>, in which the primary contrast between \"b\" and \"p\", \"d\" and \"t\", or \"g\" and \"k\" is truly one of presence vs. lack of <U>voicing</U> (rather than lack of vs. presence of <U>aspiration</U>, or <U>lenis vs. fortis</U>), labelled Manchu <I>b</I> as \"soft p\", Manchu <I>d</I> as \"soft t\", and Manchu <I>g</I> as \"soft k\", while Manchu <I>p</I> was \"hard p\", <I>t</I> was \"hard t\", and <I>k</I> was \"hard k\". This suggests that the phonological contrast between the so-called voiced series (b, d, g, j) and the voiceless series (p, t, k, c) in Manchu as it was spoken during the early modern era was actually one of aspiration and/or <U>tenseness</U>, as in the <U>Mandarin language</U>.

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