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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shuō, shuó, shuǒ, shuò
first tune
shuō
say; tell talk; speak 說 shuō
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telling stories; storytelling 說故事 shuō gù shì
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tell 說 shuō |
story 故事 gù shì |
speak Chinese 說中文 shuō zhōng wén
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speak 說 shuō |
Chinese 中文 zhōng wén |
fourth tune
shuò
great; large; big 碩 shuò
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huge; gigantic big in stature; extremely large 碩大 shuò dà
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great; large 碩 shuò |
big 大 dà |
Chinese characters also pronunced shuò