1. Pinyin and the Pronunciation of Chinese Names Christopher Lupke Professor of Chinese Foreign Languages and Cultures lupke@wsu.edu

2. Zhang WeihongXie Boxin Wang LifengDong Yuepei Hu JintaoYeh Shih-tao Lu XunWang Wen-hsing Pingping LinWang Wenxing Hsieh Hui-hsinWong Kar-wai Leung Cheung-taiMo Yan

3. Identifying Origins Where is the person from? – Differences in regional language Mandarin Cantonese (Hong Kong) Taiwanese (Taiwan/Southeast Asia) – Mandarin or Southern Min Pronunciation

4. – Differences in Romanization System Hanyu Pinyin (System used in PRC) Wade-Giles (Older System, Somewhat used in Taiwan) Systems that Reflect Regional Pronunciations – Hong Kong – Southeast Asia – United States/Canada

5. We will mainly be looking at Hanyu Pinyin – Uniform system If you know the principles, you can pronounce anything Different from English pronunciation but learnable – Most common system Largest number of students – Used for all mainland Chinese

6. Principles of the Hanyu Pinyin System – Designed for Chinese learners – Emphasizes fundamental pronunciation differences – Not interested in similarities with English – But we are compelled to use it

7. Fundamental Phonetic Differences – Certain sounds in English don’t exist in Chinese – Certain sounds in Chinese don’t exist in English – In learning, critical to grasp these Leads to precise pronunciation Not helpful for basic familiarity An obstacle we must overcome

8. What are the fundamental principles of pronunciation? ZhiJiZi“j” sound in English ChiQiCi“ch” sound in English ShiXiSi“sh” sound in English Ri“r” sound in English English collapses these sound Chinese specifies them

9. Examples of sounds in words – ZhiZhangZhuZhouZhuoZhun – JiJiangJuJiuXJun – ZiZangZuZouZuoZun – ChiChangChuChouChuoChun – QiQiangQuQiuXQun – CiCangCuCouCuoCun

10. – ShiShangShuShouShuoShun – XiXiangXuXiuXXun – SiSangSuSouSuoSun – RiRangRuRouRuoRun

11. What have we learned so far? – Two different sounds for “J” in Chinese “Zhi” and “J” both signify the English “J” – Two different sounds for “Ch” in Chinese “Chi” and “Q” both signify the English “Ch” – Two different sounds for “Sh” in Chinese “Shi” and “X” both signify the English “Sh” – One sound for “R” in Chinese

12. So far, we have been focusing on initials What about vowels and compound finals? ai as in “pai”ei as in “lei” ao as in “dao” ou as in “gou”an as in “tan”ang as in “chang” en as in “zhen”eng as in “feng” ong as in “kong” ia as in “jia”ie as in “jie”iao as in “xiao” ian as in “qian”in as in “jin”iang as in “xiang” iang as in “jiang” ing as in “jing” iong as in “qiong” ao as in “zhao”iao as in “jiao” ang as in “zhang”iang as in “jiang”

13. ua as in “shua”uo as in “shuo”uai as in “shuai” ui as in “tui”uan as in “chuan”un as in “chun” uang as in “zhuang” un as in “jun” “qun” “xun” (umlaut) uan as in “quan” “juan” “xuan” (umlaut) ue as in “que” “jue” “xue” (umlaut)

14. Common Chinese Surnames – LiWangZhangLiuChenYang – HuangZhaoZhouWuXu – SunZhuMaHuGuoLin – HeGaoLiangZhengLuoSong – XieTangHanCaoDeng – XiaoFengZengChengCai – PengPanYuanYuSuYeLü – WeiJiangTianDuDingShen – FanFuZhongLuDaiCui

15. – RenLiaoYaoFangJin – QiuXiaTanJiaZou – ShiXiongMengQinYan – XueHouLeiBaiLong – DuanHaoKongShaoMaoMei – ChangWanGuLaiWu – KangHeYanYinQian – NiuHongOuyangSimaSitu – DuanmuLinghuZhugeGongsun – ShangguanSikongMurong

16. Bai ZhixiWang DunpingXi Jinping Wang LequanHui LiangyuLiu Qi Li ChangchunWu BangguoXu Caihou Zhou YongkangJia QinglinWen Jiabao Bo XilaiJiang ZemingZhu Rongji Deng XiaopingMao ZedongZhou Enlai Hu YaobangYang ShangkunWu Yi Xie FeiLi RuihuanLi Peng Zhao ZiyangLiu ShaoqiChen Duxiu

17. Mao DunHu ShiLao She Ding LingBa JinZhang Ailing Xie BingyingWang AnyiChen Ruoxi Bai XianyongXi ChuanYu Hua Luo GuanzhongCao XueqinLao Zi Wang GuoweiLiao HuiyingSima Qian Sikong TuDuanmu Hongliang Xiao HongXiao JunQideng Sheng Sun ZiDu FuLi Bai

18. Li ShangyinLi HeWang Wei Pi RixiuLiu EPu Songling Li YuShen FuShen Congwen Wang AnshiCao CaoCi Xi Xu XiakeYuan HongdaoOuyang Xiu Feng MenglongLiu TongGuo Moruo Gao XingjianGu JiegangHan Shaogong Hong YingTian HanTie Ning Meng HaoranLu YouJia Dao