Comments on: Where do I put the tone marks in pinyin words? http://laowaichinese.net/where-do-i-put-the-tone-marks-in-pinyin-words.htm Tips and Strategies for Learning to Speak Mandarin Chinese Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:24:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Rachael Winkless http://laowaichinese.net/where-do-i-put-the-tone-marks-in-pinyin-words.htm#comment-1389 Rachael Winkless Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:06:36 +0000 http://laowaichinese.net/?p=9#comment-1389 Does anyone care? I thought Pinyin, and particularly tone-marks, was just a tool for helping poor foreigners to learn pronunciation. I shan't be burning memory cells on this one. That said, I came across a handy little hint about it. In some cases some vowels don't sound under the tone, so they don't get the tone written under them. For example piao : the i will make the same y-sound whatever tone the word has, so the tone is not written above the i. (I don't know where it does go. I would put it above the a, because I think I read or noticed that it normally goes on the first vowel of a combination. This could be wrong.) Does anyone care? I thought Pinyin, and particularly tone-marks, was just a tool for helping poor foreigners to learn pronunciation. I shan’t be burning memory cells on this one.
That said, I came across a handy little hint about it. In some cases some vowels don’t sound under the tone, so they don’t get the tone written under them. For example piao : the i will make the same y-sound whatever tone the word has, so the tone is not written above the i. (I don’t know where it does go. I would put it above the a, because I think I read or noticed that it normally goes on the first vowel of a combination. This could be wrong.)

]]> By: Ian 何溢恩 http://laowaichinese.net/where-do-i-put-the-tone-marks-in-pinyin-words.htm#comment-10 Ian 何溢恩 Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:49:55 +0000 http://laowaichinese.net/?p=9#comment-10 So that's how it works! So that’s how it works!

]]> By: Albert http://laowaichinese.net/where-do-i-put-the-tone-marks-in-pinyin-words.htm#comment-9 Albert Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:49:06 +0000 http://laowaichinese.net/?p=9#comment-9 Thanks Mark. I just updated the "rule" to include "io." Thanks Mark. I just updated the “rule” to include “io.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://laowaichinese.net/where-do-i-put-the-tone-marks-in-pinyin-words.htm#comment-8 Anonymous Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:48:04 +0000 http://laowaichinese.net/?p=9#comment-8 You can find such things on my <a href="http://www.pinyin.info/romanization/hanyu/basic.html" rel="nofollow">list of Hanyu Pinyin's syllables</a>. So, for io combinations (not counting yong, in which the i becomes a y), there are: xiong -- as in xiongdi ("brothers") qiong -- as in qiongren ("poor people") jiong (but that's fairly obscure) Thanks for all the links. :-) You can find such things on my list of Hanyu Pinyin’s syllables. So, for io combinations (not counting yong, in which the i becomes a y), there are:

xiong — as in xiongdi (”brothers”)
qiong — as in qiongren (”poor people”)
jiong (but that’s fairly obscure)

Thanks for all the links. :-)

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