P4 Chinese hanyu pinyin practice
Singapore Primary 4 Chinese, hanyu pinyin (拼音选择): choose the correct hanyu pinyin for a word, testing initials, finals and tones — especially z/zh, n/l, the front and back nasals, and the tone change when two third tones meet. Everything here follows the MOE syllabus. You can try one set free without signing up, and it is marked as you go — get one wrong and the same point comes back asked a different way, so your child can make steady progress on hanyu pinyin. This page has 20 skill points and 547 questions.
What is tested in P4 hanyu pinyin
In P3 and P4 the question moves from single characters to two-character words, and both characters have to be right at once. Characters with more than one reading and the neutral tone start appearing. The commonest pitfalls are n/l, the retroflex zh/ch/sh against the plain z/c/s, and the tone changes on 一 and 不.
Common traps
- Only one of the two characters is wrong; the child sees the first one is right and picks it.
- A character with more than one reading is marked with the wrong one — 长, 发 and 觉 change depending on the word.
- Whole syllables zhi, chi, shi and ri written as if they split into parts.
How to practise
After marking, copy out just the character that was wrong, read it three times and build one new word with it. At this level the mistakes are usually the same dozen or so characters, so a short list beats re-reading the whole character table.
P4 hanyu pinyin · worked examples
“计时员”的正确拼音是：
- ・jì shǐ yuán
- ・jì sí yuán
- ✓ jì shí yuán
- ・jī shí yuán
Why: The answer is "jì shí yuán". "计" is jì (4th tone); "时" is shí (2nd tone); "员" is yuán (2nd tone). "jì sí yuán": "时" starts with s: s is flat, sh is curled back. "jì shǐ yuán": "时" is given the 3rd tone instead of the 2nd tone. "jī shí yuán": "计" is given the 1st tone instead of the 4th tone.
“政府”的正确拼音是：
- ✓ zhèng fǔ
- ・zhèn fǔ
- ・zhēng fǔ
- ・zèng fǔ
Why: The answer is "zhèng fǔ". "政" is zhèng (4th tone); "府" is fǔ (3rd tone). "zhèn fǔ": "政" takes the -n ending en instead of eng. "zèng fǔ": "政" starts with z: z is flat, zh is curled back. "zhēng fǔ": "政" is given the 1st tone instead of the 4th tone.
“伸出手”的正确拼音是：
- ✓ shēn chū shǒu
- ・sēn chū shǒu
- ・shén chū shǒu
- ・shēng chū shǒu
Why: The answer is "shēn chū shǒu". "伸" is shēn (1st tone); "出" is chū (1st tone); "手" is shǒu (3rd tone). "shēng chū shǒu": "伸" takes the -ng ending eng instead of en. "sēn chū shǒu": "伸" starts with s: s is flat, sh is curled back. "shén chū shǒu": "伸" is given the 2nd tone instead of the 1st tone.
When unsure, read the whole word aloud first and watch which final carries the tone mark.
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