{"id":2773,"date":"2019-11-18T10:37:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/introductory-chinese\/learning-initial-quot-x-quot-in-pinyin\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T10:37:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:37:44","slug":"learning-initial-quot-x-quot-in-pinyin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/learning-initial-quot-x-quot-in-pinyin\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Initial &quot;x&quot; in Pinyin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Some Chinese co<em><\/em>nsonants are rather similar to English consonants, but it&#8217;s im<em><\/em>portant to hear the differences and get all details as accurate as possible!<\/p>\n<p>  How to read: x<br \/>  &#8216;x&#8217; is analogous to the sound of &#8216;sh&#8217; in the English word &#8216;sheep&#8217;, but with the lip corners tightened up backwards. It is similar to &#8216;sh&#8217; in the English &#8216;sheep&#8217; &#8211; to<em><\/em>ngue is positio<em><\/em>ned below lower teeth. <\/p>\n<p>  Phrases:<br \/>  \u897f\u74dcx\u012b \u0261u\u0101\uff1awatermelon<br \/>  \u7b11xi&agrave;o\uff1asmile<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-870731983\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Chinese consonants are rather similar to English consonants, but it&#8217;s important to hear the differences and get all details<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-pinyin","category-introductory-chinese"],"views":194,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}