Chinese name pronunciation tool

If the character is not in our sound database, then it will get highlighted in blue. It's a very simple Chinese tool and this has a female Mandarin voice. We also have this tool for Cantonese. We notice that you have an adblocker. Adverts fund us improving and building all the tools on offer on our websites.

We have been running for nearly 10 years and keep adding new tools and improving all our existing tools. Please disable your adblocker or sign up to our ad-free subscription. Find out more here: Benefits of premium. Chinese Names Most Chinese names consist of a surname mostly single syllable and followed by a given name this could be one or two syllables. Many Chinese abroad nowadays choose to introduce themselves with given name first as in the western custom for example, Yoyo Ma rather than Ma Yoyo.

It is now widely used as an alphabetical replacement for Chinese characters outside of Chinese speaking regions, and is a common computer input system for typing Chinese. The fundamental Chinese morpheme word is a combination of initials, finals, and tones. The following is a list of initials and finals.

Audio all sounds are pronounced in flat tone is provided for sounds that are less familiar to English speakers. Simple and compound Finals:. Common Chinese Surnames. Similar to the underlined sound in English. Bo Yi. Cao Zhongyu. Chen Huaiyu. Gao Deyao. Liao Jianling. Ling Xiaoqiao. Tian Hao. Obviously it's not easy to type tones with an English keyboard! So sometimes tones are written as a number after pinyin, like xiao3 jin3 zhu1. But most people just omit tones when writing pinyin. You don't need to worry about them for the time being.

Want to learn more? The Devil is in the details. There are a few exceptions. Beware zi, ci, si, zhi, chi, shi, ri : the 'i' here is not like h e. For zi, ci, si, try the sound of a flying bee zzz or the word 'buzz'. For zhi, chi, shi, ri, when making the buzzing zzz, curve the tongue up a little bit. But if the combination is 'iang' or 'yang' it goes back to ah. It helps if you know French. For instance to pronounce 'xu', first say sh e , then keep everything fixed but round your lips.