Variety Guangzhou (Sino-Tibetan)

Form Concept Segments

Consonants

Pulmonic Consonants
Place → Labial Coronal Dorsal Laryngeal
↓ Manner Bilabial Labio­dental Linguo­labial Dental Alveolar Palato-
alveolar
Retroflex Alveolo-
palatal
Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal
/ Epiglottal
Glottal
Nasal m  n ŋ ŋ̍
Stop  p  t k 
Sibilant affricate ts  tʃʰ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative ʃ
Non-sibilant fricative f h
Approximant l j
Flap or tap
Trill
Lateral affricate
Lateral fricative
Lateral approximant
Lateral flap
Implosive

Vowels

Front Near-front Central Near-back Back Close Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open iunrounded close front vowel yrounded close front vowel urounded close back vowel ɪunrounded near-close near-front vowel ʊrounded near-close near-back vowel ørounded close-mid front vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel ɛunrounded open-mid front vowel œrounded open-mid front vowel ɔrounded open-mid back vowel ɐunrounded near-open central vowel aunrounded open front vowel
Vowels

Other segments

                     
Other segments
 ²² flat from-mid-low to-mid-low tone
 ⁵³ falling from-high to-mid tone
 ²³ rising from-mid-low to-mid tone
 au from unrounded open front to rounded close back diphthong
 ³⁵ rising from-mid to-high tone
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
 ɐi from unrounded near-open central to unrounded close front diphthong
 ²¹ falling from-mid-low to-low tone
 ³³ flat from-mid to-mid tone
 ɐu from unrounded near-open central to rounded close back diphthong
 ɔi from rounded open-mid back to unrounded close front diphthong
 ai from unrounded open front to unrounded close front diphthong
 ei from unrounded close-mid front to unrounded close front diphthong
 ⁵ short from-high tone
 ⁵⁵ flat from-high to-high tone
 ou from rounded close-mid back to rounded close back diphthong
 ² short from-mid-low tone
 øi from rounded close-mid front to unrounded close front diphthong
 ¹¹ flat from-low to-low tone
 iɪ from unrounded close front to unrounded near-close near-front diphthong
 oe from rounded close-mid back to unrounded close-mid front diphthong
 iu from unrounded close front to rounded close back diphthong