Pinyin Tutorial II – Finals
Finals
- The final (韵母) is made up of the letter(s) after a syllable’s Initials (声母), not including the tone mark. Table below illustrates all Finals in chinese phonetics.
- A final begins with a vowel, it can be made up of 1 to 4 characters.
- A final is called Simple Final when it is formed by 1 character only. (see RED fonts in table below)
- A final is called Compound Final when it is formed by multiple characters. (see GREEN fonts in table below)
- Among all the Compound Finals, there are:
- - 8 Front Nasals Finals (see PINK background in table below)
- - 8 Back Nasals Finals (see BLUE background in table below)
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u |
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ü |
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| a |
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ia |
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ua |
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uo |
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uai |
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iao |
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| ou |
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| an |
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ian |
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uan |
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üan |
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in |
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More references/tools:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin
Pinyin Chart
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Re: Pinyin Tutorials I – Initials
I think the sound for the “n” in the first section is incorrect. Please check. Thanks
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Min Min Reply:
September 20th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Hi KWMoon,
Yes. I found the error in Initials (声母), and I have corrected it.
Thanks for addressing the error.
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