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Chinese characters are the main writing symbols of the Chinese language. Pinyin is the phonetic notation for Chinese characters. Each character has a specific syllable. Each syllable is composed of three parts: initial, final, and tone. The pinyin system has 21 initials, 36 finals, and 4 tones. It also has 2 semi-vowels and a neutral tone. Tones are very important. Many characters have the same spelling in pinyin but have different tones, and therefore have different meanings. This pinyin table is a complete listing of all Hanyu Pinyin （汉语拼音）syllables used in Standard Mandarin. Click on the cell for pronunciation. * An empty cell indicates that the corresponding syllable does not exist in Standard Mandarin. 此页面上的内容需要较新版本的 Adobe Flash Player。 Illustration of Tones The first tone, marked by -, is a high and flat sound, naturally prolonged. Example: tāng（soup）汤 The second tone, mar...

Read the Chinese writing below and tell me how you think when you finish the reading. 大家好。我中文的名字是顾思。我二十年龄了。我工作在一所中学校，各个的目的。有时候一个替代老师， 平时当一个“学校后照顾”员。 Do you find it pleasant to read? If your answer is yes and you would also write a Chinese article like that, well, it means that your Chinese writing needs to improve! The writing above is a counter example, then how to improve your Chinese writing effectively? This article lists seven practical tips for all the Chinese learners, learn it now. Tip 1: Expand Your Chinese Vocabulary You can’t express yourself well if your vocabulary is limited. There is no accurate number to tell how many words the Chinese language has, and don’t ask me how many vocabularies should you learn, a good writer should expand vocabulary as much as possible. Except for vocabulary in the dictionary, you also need to learn the new buzzwords which could make your content fresh and interesting. If you have to write a large number of articles on the same topic, ...

One of the easiest ways to meet people and have them feel comfortable quickly is to speak Chinese jokes. However, humor is hard enough if it's not one's native language. How can you learn popular jokes or pop culture in Chinese? Here are some suggestions to help you become funny in Chinese : After you improve your Chinese, you can read Chinese books, magazines, and newspapers. Many feature jokes, newly fashionable words and sentences on. If you don't know the meaning, you can ask a Chinese friend to explain. Reading is a great way to really learn the language. 1. Chinese Movies Movies are a great way to improve your Chinese . There are many funny Chinese movies included. ROB-B-HOOD 宝贝计划 If you are the one 非诚勿扰 The Eagle Shooting Heroes 东成西就 The Happy Ghost 开心鬼 Aces Go Places 最佳拍档 You can learn many funny lines and words from these movies. 2. Searching on the Internet There are also many fashionable words on the social network sites like Weibo, WeChat a...

Reading Pinyin is not really so difficult as the alphabet only has 63 letters. If you pay close attention, you can memorize the sounds in less than a couple days. Introduction to Pinyin Pinyin is the romanized spelling of Chinese character sounds. They have both initial and final sounds. The finals sound loud while the initials are a bit quieter. The finals are divided into two groups: single finals and compound finals. The single finals contain only one vowel. The compound finals contain several vowels or a combination of vowel sounds. Once you learn the sounds of the individual letters and the combinations in pinyin, you can really speed up your Chinese learning pace. Contact us at Hanbridge to jumpstart your Chinese learning with a free trial class . Pinyin table with tones ā á ǎ à āng áng ǎng àng iū iú iǔ iù ē é ě è ēng éng ěng èng iē ié iě iè ī í ǐ ì īng íng ǐng ìng üē üé üě üè ō ó ǒ ò ōng óng ǒng òng er ē é ě è ...

The Chinese pinyin system includes three parts: shengmu (initial), yunmu (final), and shenɡdiào (tones), and the tones in Mandarin are very important. Even if the initial and final are the same but have a different tone, the meaning will be different. So if you really want to master this language, you must learn to make each tone very clearly, otherwise you may not be understood by Chinese speakers. There are four different tones and one “natural” tone in Mandarin. So pronouncing each distinctly is important. The first tone should be high and flat without any change. The mark is “-” . The second tone should go up, as when asking a question. The mark is “/”. The third tone goes down first then up. The mark is “√”. The forth tone goes from top to bottom. The mark is “\”. The natural tone should be very light and short; there is no mark for it. When you practice the tones, here are some tips to help you: 1. Practice the four tones one by one. Read all the same tones togethe...

Everyone knows that learning to read Chinese is not a simple task, but is it possible to learn to read Chinese quickly? Given the sheer number of characters, it is improbable that a foreign speaker will learn to read characters quickly. However, learning to read pinyin does offer the Chinese language student an opportunity to begin reading and communicating quickly. It is important to know the sounds and blended sounds of pinyin syllables. For example: yao and you. Many beginners are confused by this and often make mistakes with this. Obviously, when we read yao, the mouth is bigger than when you read you. Another example, si and shi, which a flat tongue, another one is retroflex. When we read these two syllables, the tongue is at a different place. If you can not distinguish well when you reading them, it is likely you will make a lot of mistakes. Chinese has four tones, and neutral tone. Each character has its own tone, some even have two or three. Of course, for many l...

If you ask the mandarin learners what is the most difficult part of learning mandarin Chinese? The majority of them will tell you it is the pronunciation. Actually, the elementary difference between Mandarin language and western languages is that mandarin is a tonal language and its mastery is essential. Moreover the tone determines the meaning of the word or syllable. Mispronounced tones can make your spoken mandarin difficult or even impossible to understand, that’s the reason why so many mandarin learners found it hard to follow other people’s talking as well as made themselves understood. But using the correct tones will allow you to express yourself clearly. For example: 练习 liàn xí (4th tone and 2nd tone), means “to practice,” but 联系 lián xì (2nd tone and 4th tone), means "to contact" Tones in English are using for inflection, which is a completely different usage from Mandarin. Rising tones in English often imply a question or sarcasm. Falling tones may be us...

Chinese Alphabet, known as ‘Pīnyīn’ in Chinese, is the very essential step to start Chinese learning. Although it’s as same as English letters in writing, the pronunciation between them are quite different. This article lists the tips to help you learn it! When we start to learn a language, we usually begin with an alphabet. However, given that Chinese is written in characters, which are pictographs and not individual letters that make up words, pinyin is the system that transposes characters into words. One of the main differences between Chinese and English, for example, is that Chinese is a tonal language, with “initials,” “finals” and “tones” that form words. In the word ”pīnyīn,” for example, pīn begin with the initial “p,” and the final “in” and uses the level tone “-.” There are 23 initials, 24 finals and 5 tones in Chinese. An initial followed by a final can make up a complete syllable – spoken with a tone . For most Mandarin learners, the challenge is learning the diffe...

Students just beginning their Chinese study may think the characters are too difficult to remember. Therefore, you need a tool to read and write down Chinese. That tool is called pinyin. First, what is pinyin? Pinyin is a kind of auxiliary tool for us to learn Chinese. It is a Romanized representation of the phonetic sounds of Chinese. Chinese Pinyin is also the international standard stipulated by the United Nations for spelling Chinese special terms and names of persons and places. The Chinese syllable consists of three parts: initials, finals, and tones. For example, the character “ 妈 ”,pinyin is “ mā ”， “mā” is made up of the initial “m” , the final “a” , and the level tone “-”. In Chinese, we have 21 initials: b , p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, h, j, q, x, zh, ch, sh, r, z, c, s. And there are 36 finals: a, an, ang, ai, ao, o, ou, ong, e, en, eng, ei, er, i, ia, iao, ie, iou(iu), ian, in, iang, ing, iong, u, ua, uo, uai, uei(ui), uan, uen(un), uang, ueng, ü, üe, üan, ün. At la...