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New Practical Chinese Reader Workbook 1

A Summary of Spelling Rules

(1) i andy
i ¢ y
examples: ia - ya ie - ye ian - yan iang -yang
iao-yao iou - you iong - yong
i ¢ yi
Examples: i - yi in-yin ing ~ ying

(2) u and w
u ¢ w
Examples: ua - wa uan-wan
uo-wo uen - wen
uai - wai uang- wang
uei-wei ueng - weng
u ¢ wu
Examples: u - wu

(3) U andy
U ¢ yu
Examples: U - yu Ue - yue Uan ~ yuan Un ~ yun
U and initials n, I:
I + U - IU example: I u ~* (green)
n + U - nU example: nu *(female)
(4) -iu, -ui, -un

pfjiu ~)fJi(beer)
I
I
iou
I iu
Initial + uei - Initial + ui example: gulxlng1[-k£.
uen
un
taolunitit- (to discuss)
( 5) The position of tone marks
The tone marks are placed on vowels in the sequence ua-o-e-i-u-0"
For example:
Wang xionsher;g hen hao.
Women dou hen mang.
Nfn shl Jionada liuxues:1eng rna?
The finals iou and uei are simplified to -iu and -ui when they are combined
I·
with initials. Tone marks required by these two finals are':placed over the last
vowel. For example: liu (*), gulxlng (1[-k£.).

( 6) Syllable-dividing marks u '"
Exarilples: Tian 'an. Men it.-* f1 (Tian'anmen)
XT' 6u ~ ~ (Western Europe)
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