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About PinyinChinese is not a phonetic language. The pronunciation is not related to the writing of Chinese words (characters). A special tool called Pinyin (pronouncing the sound) is created for people to learn Mandarin pronunciation. Pinyin is a way to transcribe Chinese characters so people can pronounce it. The writing of Pinyin is similar to English alphabet. Even though most initials contain a consonant, finals are not simple vowels, especially in compound finals, i.e., when one "final" is placed in front of another one. For example, [i] and [u] are pronounced with such tight openings that some native Chinese speakers (especially when singing or on stage) pronounce yī (Chinese: 衣, clothes, officially pronounced /i/) as /ji/, wéi as /wei/ or /wuei/. The concepts of consonants and vowels are not incorporated in pinyin or its predecessors, despite the fact that the Roman alphabets are used in pinyin. In the entire pinyin system, there is not a list of consonants, nor a list of vowels. >> MorePinyin pronunciation and Chinese Tones Initial pronunciation Mandarin Pronunciation Table
Chinese characterA Chinese character also known as a Han character, is a logogram used in writing Chinese (hanzi), Japanese (kanji), less frequently Korean (hanja), and formerly Vietnamese (hán t?), and other languages. To learn to write Chinese characters, you need to know what's the strokes and radicals of Chinese characters.Chinese characters are made out of simple single strokes, Each stroke of his own name and a few written rules. It is very important to learn to recognize them. Strokes List Stroke Order Almost all of chinese characters contain a particular component called "radical" or "side" (偏旁 pianpang). These elements were once characters themselves. Chinese dictionaries contain more than 200 radicals, but you will easily memorize the most common ones. There're at least three advantages for learning the radicals. >> More |
