HVPT_Mandarin vowels a a (Pinyin: [ɑ] as in '爬'[pɑ2]) [ha2] Female: https://corpus.eduhk.hk/english_speaking/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mandarin_ha_female.mp3 Male: https://corpus.eduhk.hk/english_speaking/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mandarin_ha_male.mp3 ɤ ɤ (Pinyin: [e] as in '河' [he2]) Female: https://corpus.eduhk.hk/english_speaking/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mandarin_he_ɤ_female.mp3 Male: https://corpus.eduhk.hk/english_speaking/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mandarin_he_ɤ_male.mp3 i i (Pinyin: [i] as in '鼻'[bi2]) Female: https://corpus.eduhk.hk/english_speaking/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mandarin_hi_female.mp3 Male: https://corpus.eduhk.hk/english_speaking/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mandarin_hi_male.mp3 y y (Pinyin: [ü] as in '驴' [lǘ]) [hü2] Female: https://corpus.eduhk.hk/english_speaking/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mandarin_hy_female.mp3 Male: https://corpus.eduhk.hk/english_speaking/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Mandarin_hy_male_2nd-updated.mp3 u u (Pinyin: [u] as in '湖' [hú]) Female: https://corpus.eduhk.hk/english_speaking/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mandarin_hu_female.mp3 Male: https://corpus.eduhk.hk/english_speaking/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mandarin_hu_male.mp3 ə ə (Pinyin: [e] as in '儿' [ér]) (*[ə] is rhotacized as [ɚ].) [her2] Female: https://corpus.eduhk.hk/english_speaking/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mandarin_her_female.mp3 Male: https://corpus.eduhk.hk/english_speaking/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mandarin_her_male.mp3 → English vowel chart → Cantonese vowel chart