The 4 tones in Mandarin are:
Tone 1: Level Tone (ping) –> —
Tone 2: Rising Tone (shang) –> /
Tone 3: Departing Tone (qu) –> V
Tone 4: Entering/Stop-Final Tone (ru) –> \
example:
So, if I write a sentence in pinyin (the official system to transcribe
Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet) to say, ‘Hi, my name is
Benny. You’re very pretty.’ I would write it as, ‘Ni3 hao3, wo3 jiao4
Benling. Ni3 hen3 piao4 liang4’.
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