When you want to:
- Make a practice test with two-syllable words which differ only in aspiration
- Find several Chinese words in which the first syllable ends in /n/ and the second syllable ends in /ŋ/
- Practice the pronunciation of the word that contains more than one Second tone in a row
CPSS would give you the right answer, no matter how complicated your need for phonetic conditions is.
CPSS has about 4000 words and idioms that are frequently used at Levels 4 and 3 of the Chinese Proficiency Test (中国語検定試験). CPSS also has more than 100 Japanese proper nouns such as common surnames and province/region names. These nouns would be helpful for beginners to introduce themselves in the classroom.
Japanese headwords are highlighted in green.
Traditional Chinese notation is attached to the headwords of Simplified Chinese. In addition, Japanese headwords also have Simplified Chinese notation.
You can magnify Simplified Chinese notation and Traditional Chinese notation attached to the headwords with mouseover.
One Chinese character is a syllable. Therefore, with a few exceptions, the number of characters means the number of syllables.
Counting Japanese syllables is not so simple. To avoid confusion when searching, CPSS classifies the Japanese headwords by the number of characters instead of the number of syllables.
You can set consonant filters in a group of articulate places such as "bpmf", you can also set it with individual Pinyin.
For clarity, the selected items appear above the selection list. The list of vowels and tones also has the same function.
By default, 韻母(the final part of a syllable) is displayed as a monophthong. By clicking on each monophthong, a diphthong or nasal vowel beginning with an appropriate vowel will be displayed.
You can also specify "light voice" even when searching for a one-syllable word. Like other phoneme items, you can search without specifying a tone, or you can search for one to multiple tones.