Chinese Pinyin Syllables Table

Welcome to the Chinese pinyin syllables table! Here you will find all possible Mandarin syllables in pinyin system with audio pronunciation by tones.

How to use the table

Select the initial letter of the syllable from the list on the left
Find the desired syllable in the table
Click the speaker icon to listen to the pronunciation
Click on the syllable to view characters with this reading

About Pinyin System

Pinyin is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese, developed in the 1950s in the PRC. It uses diacritical marks to indicate four tones plus the neutral tone.

All audio recordings are made by native speakers in Putonghua standard. If you find an error or missing audio — let us know and we will fix it in the next update.

A (Syllables: 5, sounds: 17)

B (Syllables: 16, sounds: 59)

C (Syllables: 35, sounds: 133)

D (Syllables: 23, sounds: 83)

E (Syllables: 4, sounds: 15)

F (Syllables: 9, sounds: 34)

G (Syllables: 19, sounds: 75)

H (Syllables: 19, sounds: 76)

J (Syllables: 14, sounds: 56)

K (Syllables: 18, sounds: 73)

L (Syllables: 26, sounds: 100)

M (Syllables: 19, sounds: 74)

N (Syllables: 25, sounds: 90)

O (Syllables: 2, sounds: 8)

P (Syllables: 17, sounds: 70)

Q (Syllables: 14, sounds: 56)

R (Syllables: 14, sounds: 57)

S (Syllables: 35, sounds: 140)

T (Syllables: 19, sounds: 78)

W (Syllables: 9, sounds: 37)

X (Syllables: 14, sounds: 56)

Y (Syllables: 15, sounds: 58)

Z (Syllables: 37, sounds: 122)