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Chinese has pinyin as its pronunciation system that represents hanzi (Chinese characters). Most of the pinyin contains an initial (the consonant that begins the syllable) and a final (the rest of the syllable). For instead, word h ǎ o ( 好 ) is composed of ‘h’ as the initial and ‘ ǎ o’ as the final. A syllable that has an initial automatically also has a final. On the other side, some words do not have an initial, such as ài ( 爱 , love) and è ( 饿 , hungry). In learning pinyin, we do not only pay attention in the tone, but also the pronunciation. b : The initial ‘b’ is pronounced with unaspirated ‘p’, as in ‘lap’. Example: bāo ( 包 , package), it is pronounced /pao/ with a flat tone. p : The initial ‘p’ has the same way as when we pronounce ‘p’ in word “sport’. There is an aspirated ‘p’. Example: pàng ( 胖 , fat/chubby), it is pronounced /phang/ with a falling tone. m : The initial ‘m’ is similar to ‘m’ in the English “mango”. There is no change to pronounce this init