The Initials and Simple Finals in Modem Chinese│现代汉语的声母和单韵母

现代汉语的声母和单韵母

The Initials and Simple Finals in Modem Chinese

现代汉语的语音单位是音节，音节由声母、韵母、声调组成。

The phonetic unit of modern Chinese is a syllable, which is composed of an initial, a final and a tone .

1.声母 The biitials

一个音节开头的辅音叫做声母。现代汉语一共有21个声母（方括弧内是国际音标）：

The consonant that begins a syllable is called an initial and there are 21 of them in modern

Chinese （the international Phonetic Alphabet in the brackets）:

开头没有辅音的音节叫零声母音节，例如：（啊）ōu （欧）。

Syllables without initials are called syllables with zero initials, g .（啊）andōu （欧）

2 .单韵母 Single Finals

一个音节中声母后边的部分是韵母。

只有一个元音的韵母叫单韵母。单韵母一共有六个：

The element after the initial in a Chinese syllable is the final .

The final with only one vowel is called a simple final and there are six of them:

a [a]  o [o]  e [ ]  i [i]  u [u]  ü [y]

练习  Exercises

1 .读下面的声母：Read the following initials:

2.读下面的韵母：Read the following finals:

3 .读下面的音节：Read the following syllables:

4 .分辨下面各组的发音：Contrast the sounds of the initios in each of following groups:

• .拼读下表： Read the followingtable: