Many people struggle with Chinese pronunciation, and looking at the Chinese characters doesn’t really help much. Thank god we have pinyin. Pinyin is an officially adopted system of writing Chinese using the Latin alphabet. It was developed to help people with the accurate pronunciation of Chinese words. So far in my posts, I have included pinyin after each Chinese character to give everyone an idea of how those characters are pronounced. While most of the pinyin alphabets are pronounced like they would be in English, there are some notable exceptions:
C is pronounced TS, example: Cong
Q is pronounced CH, example: Qi
Z is pronounced DS, example: Zun
X is pronounced SH, example: Xi’an
U is pronounced OO, example: Hu
UI is pronounced AY, example: Sui
OU is pronounced OH, example: Zhou
ZH is pronounced JH, example: Zhou
To look at more examples and listen to audio clips, visit the National Gallery of Art website.
And here is a video that might help
