Below are the core 16 tone pairs (neutral tones omitted) in visual form. Click on any of them for more information on that tone pair. (If you're looking for diagrams for the neutral tones, please see the neutral tones page.) If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device.

Learn how to pronounce Mandarin Chinese tones with audio demonstrations of common words for every possible tone pair combination.

When learning to pronounce tones in Chinese, it makes sense to focus on words rather than single syllables. Most words in Mandarin are disyllabic and since practising these will also include tone changes (sandhi), focusing on tone pairs is recommended. This article gives you all HSK and TOCFL words, sorted by tone! First all + , then all + and ...

2013年11月14日 · 1st tone - 1st tone: 沟通 (gōutōng) – to communicate or connect, to link. 1st tone - 2nd tone: 新华 (xīnhuá) - China’s official news agency but also the street I live on (新华路, xīnhuá lù)! 1-3: 经理 (jīnglǐ) - manager, to manage. 1-4: 方面 (fāngmiàn) - aspect or segment. 2-1: 房间 (fángjiān) - room.

Practising Chinese tones in pairs is very useful and necessary. If you don’t learn how to handle two-syllable combinations, you might not be able to speak good sentences at all. It is a good idea to get started now! Together with our audio-based Pinyin Chart, you now have everything you need to master Chinese pronunciation!

There aren’t any Mandarin tone pairs that start with the 5th tone (e.g., the 5th tone followed by a 2nd tone). The other four tones can be used either first or second. This means you’d have four tones x 4 tones=16 possible tone combinations, then add another four possible tone pairs since the 5th tone can go after tones one through four ...

2023年3月27日 · Whether you’re studying hard for the HSK exam, or whether you just want to get additional practice in for your tones, here’s a COMPLETE list of all the tone pairs from the HSK 1 vocabulary list, grouped according to tone combinations.

Chinese is tonal and spoken with 4 tones, plus a neutral tone. After learning pinyin and the 4 tones, it is pretty easy to recognize the tones in isolation, but difficult to comprehend real speech. Learning to recognize tone pairs is the best next step to …

Our interactive Chinese tone drills let you click on any word to hear its pronunciation and practice speaking it aloud. Each page focuses on a different Mandarin tone combination, featuring 50 words from the HSK test.

What are Tone Pairs? You may pronounce each pinyin perfectly. But do you know how they should sound after being put together to form a word or a phrase? This chart is for you. Practicing tone pairs can help you speak Chinese more fluently and naturally. How does this tool work?