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Pinyin Chart. Learn how to pronounce Mandarin Chinese like a native by practicing with our audio demonstrations and video explanations for every possible sound combination in the language.
This Pinyin table includes all Mandarin Chinese syllables. Click on any pinyin sound in the chart, and listen to the audio in all four tones.
This is the Chinese (Mandarin) pronunciation, gender, and phonetics recording of the name Zhong (钟, Zhōng).
IPA: [tʂʊŋ] Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ. Wade-Giles: chung. Linguistic description. voiceless unaspirated post-alveolar retroflex affricate. high back rounded. voiced velar nasal. The pinyin " zhong " is a Mandarin Chinese syllable. It is composed of the initial "zh-" and the final "-ong".
Learn how to pronounce zhong with different tones, practice with audio demonstrations and video explanations for every possible sound combination in Chinese.
Using this Chinese Pinyin Chart and listen to the audios of the Chinese pronunciation system. You can also download as PDF or embed it to your website.
Pinyin is used for several purposes such as: teaching Chinese, transcribing names and places into words accessible to european language speakers, and used as an input method for typing Chinese characters. Pinyin is not the only system devised to transcribe Chinese sounds into roman letters.