The Pinyin system is the accepted standard for the romanization of Chinese characters. Pinyin means spell sound and is used to teach the standard pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese. It is also the standard system for entering Chinese characters on computers. Because of this standardization it is the method used on this site.
|
Letter |
Pronunciation |
Letter |
Pronunciation |
| b | bay or spit | p | pay |
| j | jeep or ajar | q | cheer |
| d | stay | t | turn |
| x | she | zh | junk |
| ch | church or nurture | sh | shirt |
| r | leisure | z | reads or suds |
| c | hats | y | flee or yea |
| a | father | o | saw |
| e | her | i | see |
| u | rude | er | are |
| ai | eye | ei | eight or hey |
| ia | asia or yard | ie | yes |
| ang | gang | eng | sung |
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