Do you know pinyin, it's the phonetic transcription for Chinese. Usually there are three parts in pinyin for a word, initial, final and tone. Take 你好 as an example, nihao, n,h are the initials, i,ao are the finals, n ǐ ,hǎo ∨here is the tone. 拼音通常是由三部分组成，声母，韵母和音调。比如你好的拼音是n ǐ hǎo，这里的n,h是声母，i,ao是韵母，∨是声调。拼写的时候记得检查不要忘记声调哦！ learn Chinese with gaby, one step at a day