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Pinyin - Group 6
This section teaches "Pinyin" which is a standard system of representing Mandarin with Roman letters. This tutorial allows you to hear and practice these sounds until you sound like the native speaker.

Pinyin lessons :

   Introduction
   Initials
   Finals
   Spelling rules
   - Group 1
 - Group 2
 - Group 3
 - Group 4
 - Group 5
 - Group 6
 - Group 7 		 
   Combination tables
   - Table 1 (a,o,e,i)
 - Table 2 (i)
 - Table 3 (u,ü)
   Tones
   Change of tone

Group 6

'i' in the syllables 'zhi', 'chi', 'shi' and 'ri' is not the common final 'i', but a blade-palatal vowel. The pronunciations of the syllables 'zhi' , 'chi', 'shi' and 'ri' are the same as those of the initials 'zh', 'ch', 'sh' and 'r'.
zhi = zh
chi = ch
shi = sh
ri = r

 

 i

zh

 zhi

ch

 chi

sh

 shi