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    Pinyin is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese that uses letters of the Latin alphabet to represent the sounds of Mandarin Chinese. It helps pronounce Chinese characters correctly and type in Chinese. A full Pinyin syllable consists of an initial consonant, a final vowel sound, and a tone marked with diacritical marks. There are 21 initial consonants and 39 possible final vowel sounds that make up syllables in Mandarin Chinese, along with 4 tones represented by accent marks. The document provides an overview of Pinyin pronunciation including examples and rules for combining initials and finals to form syllables.

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    Pinyin is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese that uses letters of the Latin alphabet to represent the sounds of Mandarin Chinese. It helps pronounce Chinese characters correctly and type in Chinese. A full Pinyin syllable consists of an initial consonant, a final vowel sound, and a tone marked with diacritical marks. There are 21 initial consonants and 39 possible final vowel sounds that make up syllables in Mandarin Chinese, along with 4 tones represented by accent marks. The document provides an overview of Pinyin pronunciation including examples and rules for combining initials and finals to form syllables.

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    Pinyin is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese that uses letters of the Latin alphabet to represent the sounds of Mandarin Chinese. It helps pronounce Chinese characters correctly and type in Chinese. A full Pinyin syllable consists of an initial consonant, a final vowel sound, and a tone marked with diacritical marks. There are 21 initial consonants and 39 possible final vowel sounds that make up syllables in Mandarin Chinese, along with 4 tones represented by accent marks. The document provides an overview of Pinyin pronunciation including examples and rules for combining initials and finals to form syllables.

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    pīn yīn Pronunciation

    What is Pinyin?
    ! Official system used in Standard Chinese
    ! Help you to pronounce a Chinese character correctly
    ! Help you to type in Chinese
    ! Include: 1) Initial Consonant, 2) Final syllable, 3) Tone

    shēng mǔ
    Initial Consonant
    b p m f d t n l
    g k h j q x
    zh ch sh r z c s

    y w

    yùn mǔ
    Final syllable
    a o e i u ü er

    ei ou ia ie iu iao ai ao
    ua uo ui uai üe
    an en in ian uan un üan ün
    ang ong eng ing iang iong uang ueng

    1!

    !
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    shēng diào
    Tones - 4 tones no tone

    1st: — 2nd: 3rd: 4th:

    Overview of a full Pinyin:


    e.g. bà gē mèi
    - usually formed by 1 initial, 1 final, 1 tone

    Pinyin Rule:
    1) Tone is placed above Final, according to sequence ‘a’, ‘o’, ‘e’, ‘i / u’, ‘ü’
    2) But when ‘i’ & ‘u’ are linked together, tone symbol is always marked above the
    latter one.

    Notes for you


    Final ‘ü’:
    - ü, üe, üan, ün: when linked to initials ‘j’, ‘q’, ‘x’, ‘y’ , the ‘two dots’ of ü will be
    eliminated (final ‘u’ will not link to any initials of ‘j’, ‘q’, ‘x’, ‘y’, so no confusing
    words will appear)

    2!

    !
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    ‘i’ as final:
    - there are special 7 initials, when linked with final ‘i’, don’t produce the sound of
    ‘yee’
    - zi, ci, si, zhi, chi, shi, ri
    they sound the same as their initials

    Final ‘er’
    - no initial is linked to ‘er’
    - can still form words on its own

    ê
    - is actually the ‘e’ in ie and üe. The sound for ‘ê’ is the same as English vowel ‘e’,
    which generating the sound for ie, üe
    - sometimes it’s not considered as final syllable
    - no initial is linked to ‘ê’ (it alone can only form 1 Chinese character)

    3!

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