Chinese Tones

What is pinyin?

A pinyin is a different way of writing the Chinese language.

Chinese is a tonal language. What does this mean?

It means that there is a few tones that help

How many tones are there?

There are four tones in the Chinese language.

Tone 1

-High flat sound

Tone 2

-Rising sound

Tone 3

-Down and up
Tone 4

-Down angry.

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What does ba (tone 1) mean?

It means the number eight

What does ba (tone 4) mean?

It means Dad.