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Understanding Hanyu Pinyin System

The document provides information about Pinyin, the official romanization system for Standard Chinese. It discusses: 1) Pinyin was developed in the 1950s to transcribe the Mandarin pronunciations of Chinese characters into the Latin alphabet. 2) Pinyin uses letters to represent consonants and vowels, and diacritic tone marks (ˉ ˊ ˇ ˋ) to represent the four tones of Mandarin. 3) Tones are essential in Chinese as they can change the meaning of a syllable. The same syllable with different tones can have different meanings.

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Understanding Hanyu Pinyin System

The document provides information about Pinyin, the official romanization system for Standard Chinese. It discusses: 1) Pinyin was developed in the 1950s to transcribe the Mandarin pronunciations of Chinese characters into the Latin alphabet. 2) Pinyin uses letters to represent consonants and vowels, and diacritic tone marks (ˉ ˊ ˇ ˋ) to represent the four tones of Mandarin. 3) Tones are essential in Chinese as they can change the meaning of a syllable. The same syllable with different tones can have different meanings.

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PINYIN （ HANYU PINYIN ）

拼音 （汉语 拼音）
Spoken language of the Han people Spelled-out sound

• The official phonetic system for transcribing  the Mandarin pronunciations of 


Chinese characters into the Latin alphabet
• The Hanyu Pinyin system was developed in the 1950s based on earlier forms o
f romanization. It was published by the Chinese government in 1958 and revise
d several times.
• The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) adopted pinyin as an
international standard in 1982.
 PINYIN (1)
–consonants, simple vowels and tones
Consonants (Initials)

b p m f
d t n l
g k h
j q x
zh ch sh r
z c s y w
• A single Chinese character is equal to one syllable.
• A syllable usually consists of a consonant and a vowel with a to
ne.
• A syllable may also have no initial, but all syllables must have a
final.
Tone

consonant vowel
Simple vowels (Simple
finals)
Tones

• The Chinese phonetic alphabet has four tone marks, “ ˉ ˊ ˇ ˋ”, which are
placed on the major vowels of the “final.”
• The first tone is a high level tone with
a pitch value of; its tone mark is
“ˉ”.For example ： ā Four Tones
• The second tone starts from medium
tone, then rises to the top. It has a
pitch value of 3-5, its tone mark is “ˊ”.
For example ： á
• The third tone starts from low, dips to
the bottom, then rises to the top. It
has a pitch of 2-1-4. However, in
normal speech it almost always occurs
as a “half third tone” with a pitch
value of 2-1. , its tone mark is “ˇ”. For
example ： ǎ
• The fourth tone starts at the top, then
falls sharply and strongly to the
bottom. It has a pitch value of 5-1, and
its mark is “ˋ”. For example ： à
• Tones are very important in Chinese. The same syllable with
different tones can have different meanings. For example:

bā bá bǎ bà
八 拔 靶 爸
eight pull target dad
Neutral Tone
• Some syllables are pronounced both lightly and shortly. This is called the neutral
tone , which lacks a tone-mark representation in writing.

ma
吗
(question particle)
 Exercises
Exercise 1 – Read aloud
Exercise 2– Try to pronounce pinyin
correctly.
Exercise 3 – Try to pronounce pinyin
correctly.
Xìe xìe Nĭn

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