Pinyin chart · jun

How to say jun

jun in its 2 tones, said in a female or a male voice. Tap a tone to hear it.

jun

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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.

uen: Written un after a consonant (lun, dun): a short e is said between the u and the n.

Its tones

jūn 均 all · jùn 俊 handsome. jún and jǔn aren’t used in standard Mandarin. The pinyin trainer practices telling them apart in real words.

Spelling

  • uen is written un after a consonant.

Sounds near it

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

Words with jun

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.