It indicates the stressed syllable and type of tune. There are four types of tune: even, upward, turning or downward.
ni (3rd tone)
企鹅 pinyin is spelling for the chinese characters. its spelled qi3e2. qi with the 3rd tone mark and e with the 2nd tone. ©Carolyn Matthews
快乐 - (kuàilè) - Happy
si(1) chou(2) number marks its tone in pinyin
There are mainly three rules about the position of tone marks: 1) The tone marks should be put above a vowel if there is only one vowel in a syllable. For example: mā, pí, bà. 2) The tone mark should be put above the main vowel, if a syllable contains two or more vowels. For example: māo, mēi, kǒu. 3) The tone mark should be put above the latter vowel if a syllable contains a final "iu" or "ui." For example: diū, guī.
Do you refer to the Chinese character æ—©, which means early? Its Pinyin should be [zÇŽo].
The Chinese word "Xia" is pronounced like "shyah" with a rising tone. It is the pinyin spelling of the word written as "夏" in Chinese characters.
The Chinese symbol or character for Tiger is 虎. In pinyin it is 'hu'.老虎(lao3 hu3) when two characters are both rising tone(the third Chinese tone),the first one changes into the yangping(the second Chinese tone).Then it becomes lao2 hu3 in fact.
狗 means dog. The pinyin version is gou3. It is pronounced like go with a dip in the tone.
Phonetically (not pinyin), it sounds like: ee fin zhongee = first inflection "--" (flat tone)fin = first inflection "--" (flat tone)zhong = first inflection "--" (flat tone)
猪 (pig) is pronounced roughly like "ju", as in English "July". The pinyin romanizaton is zhu, with a first (high level) tone.
The pinyin "cheng" can have a lot of different meanings depending on the initial tone marks of the word and context:成 become Chéng称 call Chēng城 city Chéng程 journey Chéng