Chinese Pinyin

汉语拼音
 1 Chinese Pinyin Introduction

Syllable = Initial Consonant + final +Tone

mā = m + a +ˉ

Initial Consonant：21

Vowel：36

Tone：4
汉语拼音 Chinese Pīnyīn
声调 Tones
The Mandarin has four basic tones.
the 1st tone: ˉ
the 2nd tone:ˊ
the 3rd tone: ˇ

the 4th tone: ˋ

Different tones may express different meanings.
• bā bá bǎ bà
• eight pull target dad
• mā má mǎ mà
• mum numb horse scold
 2 Simple Vowels
•a jar

•o log

•e bird

•
•i east

•u moon

•ü
•a •i
•o •u
•e •ü
 3、Initial Consonants
• b(+o) brother bō bà bù

• p(+o) pie pá pò pí

• m(+o) mug mā mù mǐ

• f(+o) far fó fù fǎ
• d(+e) dust dà dú dé

• t(+e) tide tā tè tù

• n(+e) nation nà nǐ nù

• l(+e) learn lā lù lǜ
• g(+e) grill gē gū gá

• k(+e) keg kě kǎ kū

• h(+e) heart hé hǔ hā
• j(+i) jī jū

• q(+i) qī qù

• x(+i) xī xū
• z(+-i) zero zì zá zú

• c(+-i) students cā cí cū

• s(+-i) students sì sā sè
• zh(+-i) zhǐ zhè zhū

• ch(+-i) chī chá chē

• sh(+-i) shí shā shū

• r(+-i) rì rè rù
5、compound finals

• ai ài mǎi cài

• ei bēi hēi fēi

• ao ǎo lǎo bāo

• ou ōu dōu tóu
• ua wā huā guā

• uo wō huǒ guó

• üe yuè nüè lüè

• iao yào xiǎo qiáo

• iou yóu liù niú

(iu)
• uai wāi huài shuài

• uei wéi shuí zhuī

(ui)
• an àn bān lán

• en èn rén shén

• in yìn xīn jìn

• ün yún
• ian yān liǎn xiàn

• uan wǎn luàn zuǎn

• üan yuán

• uen wén xún zhǔn

(un)
• ang áng máng zhāng

• eng dēng lěng céng

• ing yīng míng tǐng

• ong zhōng hóng tòng

• iang yáng liàng niáng

• uang wǎng huáng zhuāng

• iong yǒng jiǒng xióng

• ueng wēng
 Mark tones rules
(1)a˃o˃e˃i˃u˃ü
• bā bāo bái xià
• pò pōu
• dé nèi xiè
(2)iu,ui
• liù niú ; duì tuǐ
• (3) j,q,x ü
• jü jū
• qü qù
• xü xǔ
• nǚ lǜ
 exersice

• with third tone

• bao ben ying
• pei mou nan
• huo gui kuai
• zeng guan dun
• jue xiu chong
 how to write pinyin ?
• A:
• when i is the only vowel and at the beginning of
the a syllable
• i -yi in - yin ing - ying

• when i is at the beginning of the syllabe and has

more than one vowel
• ia - ya ie - ye
• iao - yao ian - yan
• iang -yang iong -yong
B:

• when u alone forms a syllable

• u - wu

• when u is at the beginning of the syllabe and

has more than one vowel
• uo - wo uai - wai uei - wei
• uan - wan uen - wen
• uang- wang ueng - weng
 C:

• when ü is at the beginning of a syllable,

• ü - yu
• üe - yue
• üan - yuan
• ün - yun
 pinyin writing

finals Application Finally form

rules
i,in,ing +y yi,yin,ying
y ia,ie,iao i y ya,ye,yao
ü,üe,üan +y,ü u yu,yue,yuan

u +w wu
w ua,uo,uai u w wa,wo,wai
 Verb “是”

Subject + 是 + Object。
eg: Wǒ shì Wáng Jiāmíng.
我 是 王 家 明。

Tā shì Dà Wèi.
他 是 大 卫。
 Verb “是”
Negative word: “不”
Subject + 不是 + Object。
eg: Wǒ bú shì lǎo shī.
我 不 是 老 师。
 Verb “是”
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