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I'll learn chinese when I have time I am not working about languages
Else when I am talking of chinese i am talking only about madarin chinese!!! but about every single spoken chinese.
Which implies the huge difference of prononciation between people despite they belong to the same writing system.
Actually I gess I knew what was xingsheng zi but I don't use to name it like that. Is it the pronounciation signs that stand by the characters to give the pronounciation?
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yes,you're partly right,the pronounciation signs that stand by the characters to give the pronounciation.
one characters usually have one kind of pronouncation
but a few characters have 2-3 kind of pronouncations, but the sound is similar.
for example: 朝 has 2 kind of pronouncations "zhao"and "chao" , "zh" and "ch" sound similar,but "zh" is sonant "ch" is surd.
It's same to English,"excuse" have 2 kind of pronouncations /ekskju:s/ and /ekskju:z/ but "s" is surd "z" is sonant
however,some pronounciations have changed in the history. but the characters haven't changed. So the pronounciation signs can give the pronounciation,but not completely.because the characters haven't changed. But people can know the ancient prose esaily, only need to learn the ancient Chinese grammar,needn't to remember the ancient word.