വിക്കിപീഡിയ:IPA for Mandarin

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Mandarin Chinese pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.

See Mandarin phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Mandarin. Please note that English equivalents given in this page may only represent very approximate sounds to the original pronunciations.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} ü ([y], [ɥ]) is spelled u after j, q, x as [u], [w] cannot occur after these consonants.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} wei, you, wen are spelled ui, iu, un respectively in pinyin, but pronounced identically, when preceded by a consonant.
3. ↑ Slightly "buzzing" vowels. In shi, zhi, chi, ri, the vowel is also retracted: [ɨ˞], rather like the ir in US English bird. These are sometimes transcribed as syllabic fricatives ([z̩], [ʐ̩]), but there is little frication.
4. ↑ uo is spelled o when preceded by b, p, m or f; however, it is pronounced similarly.
5. ↑ Only occurs in erhua and generally not considered part of the main vowel inventory.