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Pinyin Sounds

The document discusses Chinese pinyin pronunciation. Pinyin uses the Latin alphabet to write Mandarin Chinese words and helps learn accurate pronunciation. Pinyin syllables have three components - initials, finals and tones. It then explains how to pronounce the six main vowels, consonants, and consonant-vowel combinations in the first tone. Groups ending in "g" and "n" are also demonstrated.

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Pinyin Sounds

The document discusses Chinese pinyin pronunciation. Pinyin uses the Latin alphabet to write Mandarin Chinese words and helps learn accurate pronunciation. Pinyin syllables have three components - initials, finals and tones. It then explains how to pronounce the six main vowels, consonants, and consonant-vowel combinations in the first tone. Groups ending in "g" and "n" are also demonstrated.

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Chinese Pinyin Sounds

Pinyin is the phonetic system of Chinese language. It is the most widely-used system
of writing Mandarin Chinese that uses the Latin alphabet. Most importantly, it's a
great tool to help you learn the accurate pronunciation of Mandarin words and input
Chinese characters on your computer or smartphone.

The pinyin pronunciation of a Chinese character/syllable (brown) is actually made


up of three components

Initial

Final

Tone

你好 nǐ hǎo

Finals

The following vowels will be read in the first tone. The first tone is like singing a
sustained note. If you read them in the following order, you will notice that the gap
between your lips will gradually get narrower. you

ā ō ē ī ū ǖ
.

When you have learnt how to pronounce these vowels individually, you can try to
read out some combined vowels. I will read out the following groups of vowels in the
first tone. When you are ready, you can repeat after me.

āo āi iā uā
2. Consonants

The following consonants: p, f, t, k, h, q, x, c, s, ch and sh are aspirated sounds. If you


put your palm in front of your mouth when you are reading out these letters, you will
feel the air being exhaled. Read the following consonants after me in the first tone -
you will be practising your vowels as well.

b ‫پ‬ p ‫ پھ‬m ‫ م‬f ‫ف‬ With the vowel ō

d ‫ت‬ t ‫ تھ‬n ‫ ن‬l ‫ل‬ With the vowel ē

g ‫گ‬ k ‫ کھ‬h ‫خ‬ With the vowel ē

j‫چ‬ q x ‫ش‬ With the vowel ī

‫چھ‬
zī When you say z you should feel a buzz behind your upper front teeth.

cī Blow the air out as you make a short buzzing sound. Your tongue should be
looser than in “z”.
sī Close your teeth and blow over your tongue.

rī Roll your tongue back in the roof of your mouth. It should just touch your
hard palate as you say “rī”.
zhī Roll your tongue back in the roof of your mouth. The tip of your tongue
should stay pressing up towards your hard palate. Squeeze the air out over
your tongue.
chī Roll your tongue back in the roof of your mouth. The tip of your tongue
should stay pressing up towards your hard palate. Blow the air out over your
tongue, making a slightly harder sound than in zhī.
shī Roll your tongue back in the roof of your mouth so that it just touches your
hard palate as you say “shī”.

3. Groups
There are five groups with the end sound “g” and five groups with the end sound “n”.
In the following slide show these groups will be read in the first tone. The first tone is
like singing a sustained note. Please listen and repeat after me.

āng Say ā and touch your soft palate with the back of your tongue.

ōng Say ō and touch your soft palate with the back of your tongue.

ēng Say ē and touch your soft palate with the back of your tongue.

īng Say ī and touch your soft palate with the back of your tongue.

uāng Say uā and touch your soft palate with the back of your tongue

ān Keep saying the æ sound, then touch the front of your hard palate with
the tip of your tongue.

ēn Keep saying the ē sound, then touch front of your hard palate with the
tip of your tongue.

īn Keep saying the ī sound, then touch front of your hard palate with the
tip of your tongue.

ūn ūn is an abbreviated form. The actual pronunciation is u ēn. Say ū first,


then en.
(uēn)

ǖn Keep saying the ǖ sound, then touch the front of your hard palate with
the tip of your tongue.

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