The house of Babel

April 19, 2008

The way to pronounce Chinese Syllable Onset (声母)

Filed under: Chinese — admin @ 4:39 pm

We were created to pronounce anything closely if you practise in the right way.

Normally you were shown the Chinese Syllable Onset in the following way. If you were Chinese, there was no meaning to look at that. Since you already knew that.

If you were foreign people, even you look at that, it could not make so much sense to you. Because you did not learn how to pronounce that.

字母 b p m f d t n l
发音
字母 g k h j q x
发音
字母 zh ch sh r z c s
发音

声母表 (From汉语拼音方案- Wikipedia)

For Chinese, we can know the characters under every Syllable represent the pronunciation. You know, in old China, there is no alphabets like a, b, c, d. Some simple characters were used to describe the pronunciation.

So if we change the characters to alphabets, it would be the following.

字母 b p m f d t n l
发音
bo po mo fo de te ne le
字母 g k h j q x
发音
ge ke he ji qi xi
字母 zh ch sh r z c s
发音
zhi chi shi ri zi ci si

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