ABSTRACT
The phonetic system used in this article is the official hanyu pinyin system used in the People’s Republic of China since 1958 (see pinyin ). The pronunciation of the six difficult symbols is explained as follows: Q like “ch” in “cheese”; X like “sh” in “sheep”; Z like “ds” in “beds”; C like “ts” in “cats”; Zh like “dg” in “edge”; E like the “e” in “the” before a consonant.
