The following video demonstrates each syllable of the pinyin structure
and the exercise of pinyin/zhuyin with basic Chinese 4-tune pronunciation

Mandarin pinyin tunes
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shāng, sháng, shǎng, shàng

first tune

shāng

commerce; business 商 shāng

merchant; businessman; trader 商人 shāng rén
commerce; business 商 shāng	person 人 rén

hurt; injure wound; injury 傷 shāng

Chinese characters also pronunced shāng

third tune

shǎng

award; reward 賞 shǎng

fourth tune

shàng

top; up; upper 上 shàng

up and down high and low 上,下 shàng xià
up; upper 上 shàng	down; under 下 xià

Chinese characters also pronunced shàng