Mandarin Pinyin - Tone Changes

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5.1 Tone Changes of Chinese Pinyin

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Learning Highlight

There are certain situations, normal tone of a Chinese character will change to another tone according to what comes before or after it.

Three main tone change rules you need to know as follows:

1. Rule 1: Tone changes for third tones.

2. Rule 2: Tone changes for yi (means one).

3. Rule 3: Tone changes for bù (means “no”).

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