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Chinese · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "贵" in Chinese?
gway, dropping hard. Unaspirated g with immediate lip-rounding, then the same three-part glide as in 对.
guì
No rule alters this one, though it is a reliable trigger: 不贵 becomes bú guì. In the pattern hěn guì, the adverb keeps its full third-tone dip, because 贵 falls rather than dips. That pairing comes up constantly in shopping conversations and is worth rehearsing as a unit.
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Hear it in a sentence
这家餐厅很贵。
Zhè jiā cāntīng hěn guì.
This restaurant is expensive.
Listen: 这家餐厅很贵。
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这家餐厅很贵。 gives a fall, a level, a level, a level, a dip and a fall. Hěn keeps its full descent before guì, so the sentence sinks to the floor and then leaps back to the top for the final plunge. That leap is the most commonly flattened moment in sentences of this shape.
Where English speakers slip
Release the g with breath and you get kuì, a different word. Keep the release silent. Learners also collapse the vowel to "gwee" by skipping the middle "eh". And because prices are often said with resigned English intonation — a soft downward glide — the fourth tone gets under-produced; keep it sharp regardless of how you feel about the price.