Finals (vowels) Flashcards
a
“a” in “father”
ai
“I”
ao
“ow” in “now”
an
“an” in the British pronunciation of “ban”
ang
“ong” in “song”
o
“o” in office, but lips more rounded, tighter
- also sounds like hard “o” / “Oh”
ou
*
“o” in “so”
ong
“oo” in “book” combined with “ng” in “sing”
- “oo-ng”
e
*
“oo” in “book” combined with “uh” in duh
- “oo-uh”
ei
*
“ey” in “hey”
en
“en” in “taken”
eng
“en” in taken + “ng” at end
- “en-ng”
er
*
starts with Pinyin “e” sound (“oo” in book + “uh” in “duh”) and quickly ends in “r” in “bar”
- “oo-uh-r”
- sounds like hillybilly saying “heir” w/ no “h” in it
- cannot combine with a Pinyin “initial”
i
“ee” in “bee”
ia
“ya” in “yard”
- “ee-a”
- comes from Pinyin “i” (“ee”) + “a” (“a” in “father”)
iao
“ee” + “ow” / i + ao (most like “i-oh)
- sounds like “ee-oh” or “yoh” or “i-oh”
- Pinyin “i” (“b-ee”) + “ao” (“n-ow”)
ian
“yen” in English
iang
“young” in English
- i + ang in Pinyin
- NOT to be confused with “ing” which has no “a”
ie
“ye” in “yet”
- i + ê (very short ê ) (also sounds like “ee-eh”)
iu
“you” in English
- i + ou in Pinyin
in
“i” + “n”
- sounds like “ee-en”
ing
“i” + “ng”
- sounds like “in” in English word “ink”
- NOT to be confused with “iang” which sounds like “young” in English
iong
*
“i” + “ong”; sounds like “i-yoong”
- NOT confused with “iang” or “ing”, sounds more like “on”-g in English “on” than the “uh”-ng in iang
- on > ung
u
“oo” in “bamboo”
- they say it like “wuu”
