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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Mandarin Chinese pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.

See Standard Mandarin for a more thorough look at the sounds of Mandarin.

IPA Pinyin English approximation Consonants b b rubber[1] ɕ x she d d rudder[1] dz z adds[1] dʑ j edgy[1] dʐ zh edger[1] f f fan ɡ g rugged[1] j y-, -i- you k g scan kʰ k can l l leaf m m moon n n-, -n noon ŋ -ng song p b span pʰ p pan ɻ -r aria (ends syllable) s s see ʂ sh[2] sure t d stand tʰ t tan tɕ j itchy tɕʰ q cheer ts z cats tsʰ c tsunami tʂ zh[2] pitcher tʂʰ ch[2] church w w-, -u- water x h house or loch ɥ yu-, -ü- (simultaneous y and w) ʐ r-[2] Zsa Zsa (starts syllable)

IPA Pinyin English approximation Vowels a a (a, an) Spanish, French a ɑ a (ang, ar) song ɑ̃ ang (angr) vin blanc ɑʊ ao how ei ei hey ɛ e (ye, yue) yes ə e (en, eng) hung ə̃ eng (engr) nasal uhn... ɤ e hood i i, yi yield ɨ i (si, zi, ci, shi, zhi, chi, ri) (buzzing)[3] o o (bo, po, mo, fo) Spanish, French o ou ou hoe ɔ o (wo) war u u, wu woo ʊ o (ong, iong) Nibelung ʊ̃ ong (ongr, iongr) nasal oo y u, ü, yu German ü, French u IPA Pinyin Description Tones ǎ ɤ̌ á, é mid rising: ˧˦˥ â ɤ̂ à, è high falling: ˥˧˩ á ɤ́ ā, ē high: ˥˥ à, ɤ̀ ǎ, ě medially, low: ˩ initially, mid falling: ˧˩ finally, low rising: ˩˧ in isolation, dipping: ˧˩˧ a, ɤ a, e "toneless": low after a falling tone [â]; mid after all other tones

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1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} The voiced consonants [b d dz dʑ dʐ ɡ] only occur in toneless syllables, otherwise they are voiceless [p t ts tɕ tʂ k]
2. ^ ^{a b c d} In many dialects, including in Taipei, ch, sh, zh are pronounced like c, s, z, and initial r- is pronounced [z], like English zoo
3. ^ Slightly "buzzing" vowels. In shi, zhi, chi, ri, the vowel is also retracted: [ɨ˞], rather like the ir in US English bird. These are sometimes transcribed as syllabic fricatives, [z̩], [ʐ̩], but there is little frication.