Wednesday, October 26, 2011

IPA Symbols for Chinese Consonants

This chart was adapted from from Wikipedia's article on Spelling in Gwoyeu Romatzyh. 
Three spellings are included: National Romanization (國羅), Bopomofo (注音), and IPA.

國羅+注音+IPA
Plosive (stop)
b [p]
 
p[pʰ]

d[t]

t[tʰ]


g[k]
k[kʰ]
Nasal
m [m]

n [n]




Lateral approximant

l [l]




Affricate

tz [ts]
ts [tsʰ]
j [tʂ]
ch [tʂʰ]
j[tɕ]
ch[tɕʰ]


f [f]
v [v]
s[s]
sh [ʂ]
r [ʐ ~ ɻ]
Sh [ɕ]
H [x]