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IPA/Mandarin. This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Mandarin on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Mandarin in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
- Help:IPA/Chinese
Help:IPA/Chinese. < Help:IPA. Shortcut. H:IPA-ZH. The IPA...
- Help:IPA/Chinese
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Standard Mandarin pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{ IPA }}, Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
If you have trouble playing the files, see Wikipedia Media help. The latest official IPA chart, revised in 2020. Here is a basic key to the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet. For the smaller set of symbols that is sufficient for English, see Help:IPA/English.
SymbolExamples[ a] ⓘModern RP c a t, German Mann, French ...[ ä] ⓘMandarin 他 tā, American English father, ...[ ɐ] ⓘRP cut, German Kaiserslautern[ ɑ] ⓘRP father, French pâte, Dutch badThis is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Cantonese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Cantonese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
More Mandarin textbooks, dictionaries and language resources should use the standard phonemic system (IPA) to describe pronunciation. When you are studying any other language, which is written in Latin characters (such as English, Spanish, French or German) you have the IPA pronunciation next to the word written in Latin characters.
Help talk:IPA/Mandarin - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Conflicting information between 中文 and English version of this article. IPA of Tone 3 and 4 swapped? Disagreement with x in pinyin being transliterated into "ɕ" open-o sound ɔ. Help talk:IPA/Mandarin. < Help talk:IPA. Archive 1.
