Comments on: Chinese Pinyin in HTML Ascii http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2011/02/23/chinese-pinyin-in-html-ascii/ My life as a father, Buddhist and Japanophile. Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Doug 陀愚 http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2011/02/23/chinese-pinyin-in-html-ascii/#comment-5666 Doug 陀愚 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:19:41 +0000 http://japanlifeandreligion.com/?p=10488#comment-5666 Oooh! Very nice explanation Arun! Thank you very much. :) I think you hit it on the head, and articulated it a lot better! :D 谢谢你! Oooh! Very nice explanation Arun! Thank you very much. :) I think you hit it on the head, and articulated it a lot better! :D

谢谢你!

]]> By: arunlikhati http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2011/02/23/chinese-pinyin-in-html-ascii/#comment-5665 arunlikhati Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:15:23 +0000 http://japanlifeandreligion.com/?p=10488#comment-5665 I’m not an expert, but my sense is that the accent falls on the vowel nucleus. If there are two vowels and the first one is either i or u, then these vowels are considered “glides,” and so the second is considered the nucleus, and thus gets the tone mark. If the first vowel is neither i nor u, but the last vowel is i or u (or o), these last vowels are also considered glides (“off-glides”) and so the first vowel is the nucleus and gets the tone mark. (If both first and last vowels are i or u, i.e. iu or ui, then stick with rule #1.) If there are three vowels, then odds are the first and last vowels are glides, so the middle vowel is the nucleus and gets the accent mark. That’s my sense at least. I made a commitment this year to learn Chinese, though I haven’t quite spent as much time at it as I should! I’m not an expert, but my sense is that the accent falls on the vowel nucleus. If there are two vowels and the first one is either i or u, then these vowels are considered “glides,” and so the second is considered the nucleus, and thus gets the tone mark. If the first vowel is neither i nor u, but the last vowel is i or u (or o), these last vowels are also considered glides (“off-glides”) and so the first vowel is the nucleus and gets the tone mark. (If both first and last vowels are i or u, i.e. iu or ui, then stick with rule #1.) If there are three vowels, then odds are the first and last vowels are glides, so the middle vowel is the nucleus and gets the accent mark. That’s my sense at least. I made a commitment this year to learn Chinese, though I haven’t quite spent as much time at it as I should!

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