LingoDrop
Chinese · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "热情" in Chinese?
ruh-CHING, falling then rising. A retroflex buzz with unrounded lips, then an aspirated palatal with a back nasal ending.
rèqíng
Fall then climb, with no sandhi. The tonal shape is a V, and it makes a useful drill because the two most opposite contours sit directly against each other. Neither is affected by anything around it, so this word is tonally self-contained wherever you put it.
Listen: 热情
Free browser voice. Hear it read by a real native speaker inside the LingoDrop app.
Sound it out
Hear it in a sentence
你太热情了。
Nǐ tài rèqíng le.
You're so warm and welcoming!
Listen: 你太热情了。
Free browser voice. Hear it read by a real native speaker inside the LingoDrop app.
你太热情了。 keeps nǐ at a full dip before the falling tài. Then tài and rè give two consecutive drops, qíng climbs, and le fades toneless at that high pitch. Because the sentence ends on a toneless syllable riding a rise, it finishes high — which reads as warmth rather than as a question.
Where English speakers slip
Start with the r, which is the main problem: rounding the lips as English does turns it into something like "ruh" from "rug". Keep the lips flat and curl the tip back so the sound buzzes. On the second syllable, under-aspirating gives jíng, and the -ing ending drifts forward to qín — three separate contrasts to hold in mind across two syllables.