Modern Chinese pronunciation is characterized by distinct syllables and more musical sounds, as well as high and low tone changes and intonation cadences, so it has strong musical characteristics. The specific manifestations are as follows:

1. No consonants

Consonants refer to the situation where two or three consonants are connected together, such as "brought" and "Light" in English, and "rth" in "worth" are all consonants. There are no similar consonants in Chinese syllables.

for example, the "ZH" and "NG" in such sounds as "zhuáng" are two letters to indicate a phoneme, not a polyphonic sound. No str,sp. In Chinese, ng, zh, ch and sh are two letters to represent a phoneme, not a compound sound.

2. Vowels are dominant in syllables

A syllable may have no consonants but there must be vowels, and in number, the number of vowels composed mainly of vowels obviously exceeds that composed only of consonants, and a considerable part of vowels contain binary vowels or ternary vowels.

3. A distinctive tone

Tone refers to the change of the tone of a language. In modern Chinese phonetics, tone refers to the level of sound that is inherent in Chinese syllables and can distinguish meaning.

The scale in music is also determined by the pitch, which can be simulated by the scale, and you can also learn the tone with the help of your own musical sense. But pay attention to the pitch of the tone is relative, not absolute; Tone changes are slippery, unlike jumping from one scale to another.

Mandarin has four tones: level tone, rising tone, rising tone and falling tone.

4, the total number of syllables is limited, short and clear

Syllables are the basic unit of pronunciation, but also the phonetic unit to express meaning, and the carrier unit of morphemes as the smallest combination of sound and meaning in language. Accordingly, the syllables of some human languages are also morphemes, such as monosyllables. In some languages, the main morphemes (mainly root morphemes) consist of two or three syllables, such as disyllabic or trisyllabic.

There is no strong correspondence between morpheme subjects and syllable subjects in some languages, such as X syllables, but their length is also between 1 and 3 syllables, which is limited by unit length.