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Similar to English sh, but with an alveolo-palatal (softer) pronunciation 小/xiǎo ⓘ x: ㄒ: hs: See § Alveolo-palatal series. /ʈ͡ʂ/ Similar to ch in English chat, but with a retroflex articulation and no aspiration 之/zhī ⓘ zh: ㄓ: ch: See § Denti-alveolar and retroflex series. /ʈ͡ʂʰ/ As above, but with aspiration 吃/chī ...
Jin. Gan. Hakka. Xiang. Huizhou. Pinghua. "Chinese" is a blanket term covering many different varieties spoken across China. Mandarin Chinese is the most popular dialect, and is used as a lingua franca across China. Linguists classify these varieties as the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
Mandarin Chinese. Mandarin Chinese, [2] or simply Mandarin, ( / ˈmændərɪn / ( listen); simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; literally: "speech of officials") is the language of government and education of the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, with the notable exceptions of Hong Kong and Macau where a local ...
Help. : IPA/Mandarin. This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Mandarin on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Mandarin in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link ...
It is standard practice to adhere to this convention in English. However, when someone is commonly known by a Chinese name with given–surname order (e.g. Wen Ho Lee ), this form should be used, and relevant redirects created from the surname–given ordering.
Classical Chinese [a] is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from c. the 5th century BCE. [2] For millennia thereafter, the written Chinese used in these works was imitated and iterated upon by scholars in a form now called Literary Chinese, which was used for almost all formal writing in China until the early ...
The Han Chinese or Han people [b] are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. They are the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 17.5% of the global population . The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group in China — including mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau — with a global population of over 1.4 billion.
