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Understand the concept of Chinese Pinyin.

Objectives

Aim

► Recite the Chinese initials, finals (including

single and compound finals) and tones.

► Read out Chinese syllables correctly.

By the end of this lesson, you are

expected to identify the different

parts of a Chinese syllable: the

initial, the final and the tone.

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Learning outcome

Welcome to our Chinese class.

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欢迎 来到 我们的 汉语 课堂

Huānyínɡ láidào wǒmen de Hànyǔ kètánɡ

Chinese Pinyin

汉语 拼音

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Hànyǔ pīnyīn

Chinese Pinyin is useful for

learning the pronunciation of

Chinese characters.

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汉语拼音对学习 Hànyǔ pīnyīn duì xuéxí

汉字的发音有帮助。 hànzì de fāyīn yǒu bānɡzhù

Generally speaking, one Chinese

character （hànzì 汉字）corresponds to one syllable （yīnjié 音节）.

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一般来说一个汉字 Yìbān lái shuō yī ɡè hànzì

dàibiǎo yī ɡè yīnjié

代表一个音节。

Let’s look at an example :

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我们看一下例子： Wǒmen kàn yīxià lìzi

你好！ nǐ hǎo

Hello!

nǐ

音节 Syllables

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hǎo

你 好 Hello!

“你好”consist of two syllables: “nǐ” and “hǎo”.

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yīnjié

音节 syllable

shēnɡmǔ

声母 Initial

yùnmǔ

韵母 Final

shēnɡdiào

声调 Tone

音节 Syllable

Initial

声母

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shēnɡ mǔ

An initial is

generally the

first consonant

in a syllable. In

Chinese, the

initial is called shēnɡmǔ

声母 .

n h ǐ ǎo

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你 好 Hello!

声母 Initials

“n” and “h” are called initials

（shēnɡmǔ 声母）.

Final 韵母

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yùn mǔ In Chinese, the final is called

“yùnmǔ

韵母”.

n h 1 ɑo ˇ

ˇ

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韵母 Finals

你 好 Hello!

In “nǐhǎo”, “i” and “ɑo”

are finals

“yùnmǔ

韵母”.

Tones

声调

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shēnɡ diào In Chinese, a

tone is called

“shēnɡdiào

声调”.

n h 1 ɑo ˇ

ˇ

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声调 Tones

你好 Hello!

In the word

“nǐ hǎo”, the tone is

represented by

this symbol on

the finals.

nǐ hǎo

你 好 Hello!

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Recapitulation

A Chinese character（hànzì汉字）can be represented by a syllable

（yīnjié 音节）.

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yīnjié

音节 syllable

shēnɡmǔ

声母 Initial

yùnmǔ

韵母 Final

shēnɡdiào

声调 Tone

Recapitulation

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zài jiàn

再见 Goodbye