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Chinese character sounds (simplified Chinese: 汉字字音; traditional Chinese: 漢字字音; pinyin: hànzì zìyīn) are the pronunciations of Chinese characters. The standard sounds of Chinese characters are based on the phonetic system of the Beijing dialect. [1] Normally a Chinese character is read with one syllable.
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. Hanyu ( 汉语 ; 漢語 ) literally means ' Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means 'spelled sounds'.
Phoneme or sound Approximate description Audio example Pinyin Zhuyin Wade–Giles* Notes /p/ Like English p but unaspirated – as in spy: 邦/bāng ⓘ b: ㄅ: p /pʰ/ Like an aspirated English p, as in pie: 旁/páng ⓘ p: ㄆ: p῾ /m/ Like English m: 明/míng ⓘ m: ㄇ: m /f/ Like English f: 非/fēi ⓘ f: ㄈ: f /t/ Like English t but ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Mandarin on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Mandarin in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
This pinyin table is a complete listing of all Hanyu Pinyin syllables used in Standard Chinese. Each syllable in a cell is composed of an initial (columns) and a final (rows). An empty cell indicates that the corresponding syllable does not exist in Standard Chinese.
It consists of 37 characters and five tone marks, which together can transcribe all possible sounds in Mandarin Chinese. Bopomofo was first introduced in China during the 1910s by the Beiyang government , where it was used alongside Wade–Giles , a romanization system which used a modified Latin alphabet .
The Table of Mandarin Words with Reviewed Variant Pronunciations, or Putonghua Words with Reviewed Variant Pronunciations (simplified Chinese: 普通话异读词审音表; traditional Chinese: 普通話異讀詞審音表; pinyin: Pǔtōnghuà Yìdúcí Shěnyīnbiǎo), is a standard on Mandarin polyphonic monosemous words, i.e., words with different pronunciations for the same meanings.
A Chinese vowel diagram or Chinese vowel chart is a schematic arrangement of the vowels of the Chinese language, which usually refers to Standard Chinese.The earliest known Chinese vowel diagrams were made public in 1920 by Chinese linguist Yi Tso-lin with the publication of his Lectures on Chinese Phonetics, three years after Daniel Jones published the famous "cardinal vowel diagram" in 1917.