语音 · Phonetics
注音 · 拼音
zhùyīn · pīnyīn
The sound inventory — every syllable our characters use, once
Bopomofo & Pinyin · syllable bank注音符号与拼音 · 音节库
The alphabet字母

注音符号

Taiwan writes the sounds of Mandarin with 注音符号 (zhùyīn fúhào, “Bopomofo”) — one symbol per initial, medial, and final. Each maps exactly onto a piece of pinyin. 台湾用注音符号拼写普通话的声音——声母、介母、韵母各有一个符号,与拼音一一对应。

The bank音节库

音节库

Every hanzi reads as exactly one toned syllable, so the sounds are enumerable: the whole character set collapses to the syllables below. Tap any one to hear it — one clip per sound, shared by every character that reads it. 每个汉字只读一个带调音节,声音是可枚举的:整套字收拢成下面这些音节。点击即可听——每个音一段录音,读该音的所有字共用。