The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Mandarin Chinese pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.
See Mandarin phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Mandarin. Please note that English equivalents given in this page may only represent very approximate sounds to the original pronunciations.
"toneless": low after a falling tone [â]; mid after all other tones
Notes
↑ 1.01.1ü ([y],[ɥ]) is spelled u after j, q, x as [u],[w] cannot occur after these consonants.
↑ 2.02.12.2wei, you, wen are spelled ui, iu, un respectively in pinyin, but pronounced identically, when preceded by a consonant.
↑Slightly "buzzing" vowels. In shi, zhi, chi, ri, the vowel is also retracted: [ɨ˞], rather like the ir in US English bird. These are sometimes transcribed as syllabic fricatives ([z̩],[ʐ̩]), but there is little frication.
↑uo is spelled o when preceded by b, p, m or f; however, it is pronounced similarly.
↑Only occurs in erhua and generally not considered part of the main vowel inventory.