How to write Chao Pinyin

According to the available data, Chao's pinyin can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was one of the dynasties that used Chinese characters. At that time, people gradually formed the pinyin system of modern Chaoshan dialect according to the pronunciation of Chinese characters.

Chaoshan dialect belongs to Minnan language family, which is popular in eastern Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan Province and Zhejiang. In Chaoshan dialect, the pronunciation of Chao is tsieu, in which the initial is ts, the final is ieu, and the tone is the first sound.

According to the International Phonetic Alphabet and the modern Chinese Pinyin scheme, the pronunciation of Chaoshan dialect is standardized as ts? Iau, what's the initials of ts? The vowel is iau and the tone is the first sound. In the pinyin scheme of Taiwan Province province, Chao is pronounced as tshao, in which the initial is tsh, the final is ao and the tone is the first sound.

In a word, the pinyin of Chaozhou dialect consists of initial ch and vowel ao, and its pronunciation originated from the pronunciation of Chaoshan dialect in Ming Dynasty. In different regions and dialects, the pronunciation and pinyin scheme of Chao may be different, but in modern Chinese, pinyin has been standardized as well-known [cháo].

Pinyin is classified as follows:

1, initial classification

Initial consonants can be divided into two categories, that is, tongue rolling and front tongue sound. Tongue sound refers to the sound formed by the tip of the tongue against or close to the front of the hard palate, including the letters zh, ch, sh, R, and the prelingual sound, also known as flat tongue sound and prelingual sound, refers to the sound formed by the tip of the tongue against the upper gum to block the airflow, including the letters Z, C, S.

2. Classification of vowels

Vowels can be divided into three types: single vowel, compound vowel and special vowel. There are six single vowels, namely A, O, E, I, U and U, and eight vowels, namely ai, ei, ui, ao, ou, iu, ie and ue. There are three special vowels, namely er, an and ang.