PINYIN
Hanyu Pinyin spells Mandarin sounds with the Latin alphabet you already know, plus four tone marks. Learn all the building blocks here.
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21 initials + 24 finals. Mark ones you know on the Initials & Finals page.
Initials & finals
Tap a card to mark it learned. Tap ▶ to hear it — real recordings from Taiwan's open CNS11643 character database.
Initials — 21 sounds
Finals — 24 sounds
The four tones (+ neutral)
Pinyin marks tone with a diacritic over the main vowel. Tone 1 is a flat macron; the neutral tone carries no mark at all.
Practice
Listen, then tap the pinyin spelling you hear.
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