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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'.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Bopomofo annotations – adds inline and pop-up annotations with bopomofo pronunciation and English definitions to Chinese text or web pages. Mandarin Dictionary – needs Chinese font for Big5 encoding; Chinese Phonetic Conversion Tool – converts between Pinyin, Bopomofo and other phonetic systems
In addition to the sounds of standard Chinese, Chinese characters can be sorted alphabetically by the sounds of dialects as well. In Jyutping for the Cantonese dialect popular in Hong Kong, the sound of a character is represented by a string of English letters, followed by a number (1 through 6) to represent the tone. For instance, the Jyutping ...
Sound-based encoding is normally based on an existing Latin character scheme for Chinese phonetics, such as the pinyin Scheme for Mandarin Chinese or Putonghua, and the Jyutping Scheme for the Cantonese dialect. The input code of a Chinese character is its pinyin letter string followed by an optional number representing the tone.