How to say jue

jue in its 3 tones, said in a female or a male voice. Tap a tone to hear it.

jue

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Voice

How to say it

j: The tongue tip rests behind the lower teeth and the front of the tongue presses the hard palate: close to the j in “jeep”, with no puff of air and no rounding of the lips.

üe: üe starts from ü (“ee” with rounded lips) and opens to the e of “yes”.

Its tones

juē 撅 to stick up · jué 绝 to cut off · juè 倔 gruff. juě isn’t used in standard Mandarin. The pinyin trainer practices telling them apart in real words.

Spelling

After j, ü is written u without the dots: jue is jüe. j, q and x never take a plain u, so nothing is lost.

Sounds near it

Learners often mix jue up with these. Listen to them one after the other.

Words with jue

The voices are generated speech (ElevenLabs), the same two the app’s word cards use, each tone said as one real word. The words are from the official HSK list (the exam’s 2025 syllabus), easiest first. Every syllable is on the pinyin chart.