Part 1 课文 Text

Part 2 拼音  Pinyin

汉语中除了四声以外，还有一个读得又短又轻的声调，叫作“轻声”，例如: 

Apart from the four tones mentioned previously, there is another tone in Chinese. which is short and light, known as “'the neutral tone”.  For example:

汉语拼音的声调必须标注在元音字母上。当一个韵母含有两个或者两个以上元音字母时，调号标注在开口度较大的那个元音字母上。调号标注的主要元音顺序为 a、o、e、i、u、ü ，但iu是个例外，iu是iou的省略形式，声调标注在u上。轻声音节不标声调。

Tone marks in Chinese pinyin are put above vowels. When there are two or more vowels in the final of a syllable, the tone should be marked on the one that is pronounced with the mouth more wide-open, the sequence being “a, o, e, i, u, ü  ” in the descending order. The compound final iu is an exception to this rule, in which the tone mark is put on u rather than i as iu is the abbreviation of iou. The neutral tone is unmarked.

(2)省写Abbreviation

iou、uei、uen 前面加声母的时候，写成:iu、ui、un。例如 niu、gui、lun。

When iou, uei or uen follows an initial, they are written as iu, ui and un respectively,for example, niu, gui, lun.