"八"
Translation:Eight
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Hi! Why does the Chinese pronunciation sound like 'pa' when it's actually ba? Please help
because it's an unaspirated voiceless [p], like p in "spy", but sometimes pronouced like b. In Mandarin and most other Chinese languages (e.g. Cantonese, Hakka) [p] [b] are the same, but the aspirated one [pʰ] will be marked as a different phoneme.
In some Cantonese dialects there are some phonemes like [ɓ] (=b in Vietnamese) and [ɗ] (=đ in Vietnamese), but it's another story.
Some b words are more likely pronounced as a "p" and the p sound are more likely pronounced as "b"
its actually ba only ba : 8 in mine not coming but the correct word is ba not pa
Thats just the way it is you cant change the way they pronounce things because its confusing
I was writing this character this way earlier in the lessons, and was marked correct. Later, I noted that the character changed and had a small horizontal line going left from the top of the right line, so naturally I changed it in my notes. Now, I am seeing this same character as it is here, without the small line at the top. Very confusing, as I am trying to learn characters and it is not helpful when they 'move the lines around'. Not the biggest problem, and too new to this language to comment a lot, but I did notice this. Has anyone else noticed the same thing?
This is just mostly to do with the font style like how sometimes q has the tail and sometimes not.
A similar example is the lower case "g" - sometimes its the "squiggly" version and other times the simpler form. Compare the g in the old and new/current Google logo for example
There error ( character was for 8 and i said 2) and said i was correct whe i 2 andmit was post to be 8
八 was now 把 in 2021 because in 2020 it was 八. (Good old days with 八 in 2020)
