Understanding Pinyin
Explore the beauty of Mandarin through the Pinyin system, which uses the Latin alphabet to represent the sounds of Chinese words, making language learning accessible and enjoyable.
Pinyin (拼音) is a romanization system for Chinese that uses the Latin alphabet to spell out the sounds of Mandarin Chinese words. The word "pinyin" literally means "spell sound" and comes from the Chinese words pīn (to arrange) and yīn (sound, pronunciation). It is the most commonly used system for transcribing or spelling out Chinese sounds. In Pinyin, the basic unit is the syllable. Each Chinese syllable is made up of three parts: an initial, a final, and a tone.
See the picture here - it explain a Pinyin syllable example for your reference:
Syllables have Initials and Finals
Some of the Chinese syllables have no initials,but they must have finals and tones, such as 哦(Ó).
There are total 23 Initials and 24 Finals in Chinese Pinyin:
23个声母（23 Initials）:
b p m f d t n l g k h
j q x zh ch sh z c s y w
23个韵母（24 Finals）:
单韵母：a o e i u ü
复韵母：ai ei ui ao ou iu ie üe er
前鼻韵母：an en in un ün
后鼻韵母：ang eng ing ong
三拼音节韵母：ia ian iao iang iong ua uai uan uang uo üan
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