Chinese Pronunciation

Pinyin Section 6

E with Z, C, S, ZH, CH, SH, R

This section contains no new sounds. Rather, it combines sounds you have already learned in Section 3, Section 4, and Section 5 to form new syllables. The pronunciation of the Mandarin sounds e, ei, en, and eng follow the same rules as in Section 5. Notice, however, that not every combination is used in Mandarin. (Those spaces are left blank in the chart.)

Listen to the sounds of this section and try repeating them by clicking on the syllables below:

	e	ei	en	eng	er
z	ze	zei	zen	zeng
c	ce		cen	ceng
s	se		sen	seng
zh	zhe	zhei	zhen	zheng
ch	che		chen	cheng
sh	she	shei	shen	sheng
r	re		ren	reng