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How do you pronounce "舒服" in Chinese?
shoo-fu: a high level first syllable with the tongue curled back, then a weak toneless second.
shūfu
A plateau then a weightless tail. Since shū is level, the neutral syllable stays high — the same outcome as in 衣服, where 服 is also toneless. That character reduces in both words, which makes it easier to remember than one that alternates.
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Hear it in a sentence
我今天不太舒服。
Wǒ jīntiān bú tài shūfu.
I don't feel well today.
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我今天不太舒服。 shows the 不 rule: tài is a falling tone, so the negator converts to bú. Wǒ keeps its dip because jīn is level. The sentence therefore runs dip, level, level, rise, fall, level, nothing — with the converted bú providing the only climb.
Where English speakers slip
Learners flatten the retroflex into an English "sh", pulling shū toward the thin x. Curl the tip back. Restoring a rising tone to fu is the second error — it belongs to 服 as an independent morpheme but not here. And in the example sentence, learners produce bù tài instead of bú tài, missing the conversion before a falling tone.