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Lesson 2 Mandarin Pinyin Lecture Notes

The document provides lecture notes on Mandarin Pinyin pronunciation. It defines Pinyin as a phonetic transcription system to combine sounds to form words. It then discusses the different types of consonant and vowel combinations in Pinyin, including compound finals, nasal endings, tones, and individual consonant sounds. Examples are given to demonstrate each phonetic component in Pinyin and their corresponding Mandarin words.

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Lesson 2 Mandarin Pinyin Lecture Notes

The document provides lecture notes on Mandarin Pinyin pronunciation. It defines Pinyin as a phonetic transcription system to combine sounds to form words. It then discusses the different types of consonant and vowel combinations in Pinyin, including compound finals, nasal endings, tones, and individual consonant sounds. Examples are given to demonstrate each phonetic component in Pinyin and their corresponding Mandarin words.

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Free Mandarin Class Lesson 2 The mandarin Pinyin Lecture notes by XJTLUSOC

Lecture notes
Part 1
Definition: A phonetic transcription to combine sounds to form words

There are different kinds of dialects in China. Same sentence will sounds
differently in different area of China.

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Part 2
fù yùn mǔ
复 韵 母
Compound Final

There are 9 compound finals, which are two finals to get together.
When you learn how to pronounce it, you can use some similar sound to
remember.

The list of compound finals:

ai ei ui

ao ou iu

ie ve er
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Tip: ‘ai’is same to ‘I’; ‘ei’ is same as ‘A’; ‘ui’ sounds like ‘way’, ect.

Some simple examples for using the compound final:

Word Pinyin Meaning


爱
aì love
我 爱 你
wǒ aì nǐ I love you.
喂
weí Hello.
凹
aō concave
球
qiú ball
谢 谢
xìe xie thanks
月
yuè moon
二
èr two

bí yùn mǔ
鼻 韵母

A vowel followed by a nasal consonant

an ang

in ing

en eng

un ong

vn

There are 9 vowels followed by a nasal consonant.

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Word Pinyin Meaning


文具盒
wén jù hé Stationary case
树 荫
shù yīn leafy shade
羊
yáng sheep
鹰
yīng eagle
灯
dēng lamp
钟
zhōng clock

Part three
Initial
There are 23 initials in all

b p m f d t n l

g k g j q x

zh ch sh r z c s

y w

Compared with the phonetic alphabet in English, the pronunciation of


Mandarin Pinyin could be roughly divided into three groups.

 Same as the ENG phonetic alphabet


Eg. b d g

 Add /ə/ at the end of the voiceless consonant


Eg. p t k f

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 Particular elements
Eg. zh ch sh y w

b /b/ consider

p Add /ə/ at the end of /p/ potato

m Add /ə/ at the end of /m/ murder

f Add /ə/ at the end of /f/ further

d /d/

t Add /ə/ at the end of /t/ tomato

n Nervous

l particular

g /g/ Girl

k Add /ə/ at the end of /k/ Curve

h Herb

j Particular element

q Particular element

x Particular element

zh / dʒ /  jeep

ch / tʃ / chair

sh / ʃ /  cash

r Particular element

z Particular element

c Particular element

s Particular element

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y Voicing like the final i

w Voicing like the final u

Tip: the underlined syllable only sounds like, not exactly the same, with the corresponding
initial

Part four
L+U+ˋ= lù

G+U+ˉ= gū

H+U+ˊ= hú

B+A+ˋ= bà

M+A+ˉ= mā

B+U+ˋ= bù

D+A+ˊ= dà

L+A+ˉ= lā

G+ONG+ˉ= gōng

H+AI+ˇ= hǎi

M+U+ˇ= mǔ

D+AN+ˉ= dān

X+I+ONG+ˉ= xiōng

D+I+ˋ= dì

G+U+ANG+ˇ= guǎng

CH+ANG+ˇ= chǎng

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Q+V+AN+ˊ= quán

J+I+ˉ= jī

Word Pinyin Meaning


路
lù Road
鼔
gǔ Drum
湖
hú Lake
爸爸
bà ba Dad
妈妈
mā ma Mum
布
bù Cloth
大
dà Big
拉
lā Pull
大海
dà hǎi Sea
布达拉宫
bù dá lā gōng Potala Palace
牡丹
mǔ dān Peony
兄弟
xiōng dì Brother
广场
guǎng chǎng Square
拳击
quán jī Boxing

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