Traditional and classic Chinese calligraphic symbols, words, idioms and proverbs for your art design. Created by Andres Leo since 2001.

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Index of Chinese Phrases and Vocabulary
with mp3 audio pronunciations and related video instruction lesson


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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retroflex tunes in Mandarin

shuō, shuó, shuǒ, shuò

first tune

shuō

say; tell
talk; speak

shuō

telling stories; storytelling

說故事

shuō gù shì

tell

shuō

story

故事

gù shì

speak Chinese

說中文

shuō zhōng wén

speak

shuō

Chinese

中文

zhōng wén


fourth tune

shuò

great; large; big

shuò

huge; gigantic
big in stature; extremely large

碩大

shuò dà

great; large

shuò

big

Chinese characters also pronunced shuò

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