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This bopomofo table is a complete listing of all Zhuyin/Bopomofo syllables used in Standard Mandarin. Each syllable in a cell is composed of an initial (columns) and a final (rows).

Finals are grouped into subsets ㄚ, ㄧ, ㄨ and ㄩ.

ㄧ, ㄨ and ㄩ groupings indicate a combination of those finals with finals from Group ㄚ.

An empty cell indicates that the corresponding syllable does not exist in Standard Mandarin.

Please note that this table indicates possible combinations of initials and finals in Standard Mandarin, but does not indicate tones, which are equally important to the proper pronunciation Chinese. Although some initial-final combinations have some syllables using each of the 5 different tones, most do not. Some utilize only one tone.

Equivalent Hanyu Pinyin initials and finals are listed next to their respective bopomofo initial and final. Bopomofo entries in this page can also be compared to syllables using the romanized Pinyin phonetic system in the Pinyin table page.

There are discrepancies between the bopomofo tables and the pinyin table due to the few standardization differences of a few slight characters between the mainland standard putonghua and the Taiwanese standard guoyu. For example, the variant sounds 挼(ruá; ㄖㄨㄚˊ), 扽(dèn; ㄉㄣˋ), 忒(tēi; ㄊㄟ) are not used in guoyu. Likewise the variant sound 孿 (lüán; ㄌㄩㄢˊ) is not recognized in putonghua, or it is folded into (luán; ㄌㄨㄢˊ).