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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.
Near-sound borrowing. For example, "只" is read as zhǐ, which means “only”; when used as the simplified character of the quantifier "隻", it is read as "zhī". "打" is pronounced dǎ, which refers to hitting; when transliterated into English "dozen", it is pronounced dá. Different pronunciations of proper names.
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 ...
Chinese Romanization Converter – converts between Hanyu Pinyin, Wade–Giles, Gwoyeu Romatzyh and other known or (un-)common Romanization systems; Bopomofo -> Wade-Giles -> Pinyin -> Word List; NPA->IPA National Phonetic Alphabet (bopomofo) spellings of words transliterated into the International Phonetic Alphabet. The vowel values have been ...
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.
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.
Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II (MPS II) is a romanization system formerly used in Taiwan. It was created to replace the complex Gwoyeu Romatzyh system, which used tonal spelling—and to co-exist with the Wade–Giles romanization as well as bopomofo .