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你叫什么名字? nǐ jiào shěn me míng zì ni chiao shən mə ming tsɨ What’s your name?
* When there are two consecutive 3rd tone, the first one becomes a 2nd tone.
** With reference to International Phonetic Alphabets (IPA) and Wade-Giles system
二、发音 Pronunciation
a a father mā
o ɔ war / water wǒ
e ə/ê about kè
i yi see nǐ
u wu shoe bú
ü yü (German) ü / (French) tu nǚ
* When single vowels are combined, the pronunciations can change. This will be covered in the
future.
2)声调 Tones
Tone number 1 2 3 4
Description high rising low (dipping) falling neutral
ā ǎ
Pinyin diacritic
á à a
˥ ˧˥ ˨˩ / ˩ / ˩˧ ˥˩
Tone letter
三、汉字 Characters
女 (nǚ) -
female 好(hǎo) -
good
子 (zǐ) -son
不 (bú/bù) -no