PINYIN FOUNDATION

IVC Chinese InstructorJoanne Chen

PINYIN CHARACTERS

Pinyin (Chinese Sound System written in English Alphabet)

Wǒ

Character (Chinese writing system)

我

F-1 STRUCTURE OF PINYIN Initial

Final Tone h+ao+3 hǎo

F-II INITIAL +FINAL + TONE

1 bā 2 hǎo 3 bān 4 máng 5 yě

6 w + o + 37 L+ i +ang +4

8 g+ uo 29 L+ ue 4

F-III PINYIN TONES AND TONE MARKS

1st 2nd 3nd 4th Neutral

bā bá bǎ bà ba

mā má mǎ mà ma

bō bó bǒ bò bo

dā dá dǎ dà da

F-V. INITIALS

b p mf

d tn l

g k h

j q x (Ji qi xi)

zh ch sh r

(Zhi chi shi ri)

z c s (Zi ci si)

F-IV VOWELS AND SIMPLE FINALS

a - ba ma pao - bo po mo e - de ke nei - mi pi liu – gu ku lu u - ju qu xu

F-VI.COMPOUND FINALS1. Ai ei ao ouEx: Bai pei mao dou2. ia iao ie iu ex: Jia jiao jie jiu3. ua uo uai ui(uei)Ex. Zhua zhuo shuai rui

F-VII.NASAL FINALS1.An en Pan gen2.ian in jian jin3.uan un Huan yun

4 Ang eng ong

Bang deng dong

5.iang ingiong

Jiang jingxiong

6. uang ueng Wang weng翁

F-VIII SUMMARY OF FINALS a o e i u u ai ei ao ou ia iao ie iu (iou) ua uo uai ui ue/yue an en ang eng ong ian in iang ing iong uan un(uen) uang ueng uan un

F-IX-SPECIAL PINYIN RULES i=> y (ia)ya, (ie)ye,

(iao)yao

uei (wei) => ui dui, hui, tui, kui

iou (you) => iu xiu, liu, diu, qiu

F-X. SPECIAL TONE RULES1. 你好 Ni3 hao3 => ni2 hao3

2. 一 yi1, yi2, yi3, yi4 一天 yi4tian1 ，一个 yi2ge, 一起 yi4qi3

3. 不， bu4, bu2 不忙 bu4mang2 ，不要 bu2yao4