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  1. This is a living Chinese dictionary that lets you contribute your Chinese learning experience to the community. Not only are your search results ranked by frequency of everyday usage so you get accurate results, but it includes Mandarin pronunciation guides with audio, Cantonese pronunciations guides, simplified Chinese characters, traditional Chinese characters, written Chinese stroke ...

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  2. Aug 1, 2024 · The Pinyin system (Hanyu Pinyin), or Chinese Alphabet, is a set of characters meant to reflect the fundamental Mandarin Chinese sounds. Chinese word pronunciation is based on these letters, which contain known consonants (initials) like “b,” “d,” and “m,” as well as unusual vowel (finals) combinations like “iu,” and “ao.”.

  3. Pinyin is a writing system used to represent the sounds of Mandarin Chinese using a combination of the letters of the Roman alphabet and special diacritics (accent/tone marks). It is widely used in China and around the world by those new to the language including non-native speakers and Chinese children.

  4. For example, take the pinyin sound “guo.” This phonetic combination can mean fruit (果 guǒ), country (国 guó), to cross (a road) (过 guò, as in 过马路 guò mǎlù), cooking pot (锅), and a variety of other words. “Guo” is even one of the 100 most common Chinese family names (郭 Guō).

  5. The word pīnyīn (拼音) in Chinese literally means "spell-sounds". It's the most commonly used system for transcribing or or spelling out the Chinese sounds, and it uses the letters in the Latin alphabet that you are already familiar with. Pinyin is an extremely useful tool and should be the foundation of your Chinese learning.

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