Laowai Chinese 老外中文

Why Is It So Easy to Rhyme in Mandarin?

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Chinese words are made up of so few possible syllables that it's almost hard NOT to rhyme.  For example, Wang Lihong has a song called "Can you feel my world" that has the following rhyme scheme: A A A A A etc. Just to clarify, that means that every single line in the whole song rhymes ...

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Pinyin Chart

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

As I'm sure many of you know, the number of syllables in Chinese is limited. It's not like English where you can just throw together practically any letters you want and make a new word (like "craisins"). So, that means it's actually possible to make a chart of all the ...

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