Tone practice

Cantonese has six tones which could be difficult to master. We provide an excercise to help you distinguish them.

Tone contrast table

In the table below, we use si as a syllable example to provide all combinations of the six tones. Listen to them and try to distinguish the contrast. Here are the example characters for these six syllables「si1 si2 si3 si4 si5 si6」。

Tones 1 2 3 4 5 6
1 11 12 13 14 15 16
2 21 22 23 24 25 26
3 31 32 33 34 35 36
4 41 42 43 44 45 46
5 51 52 53 54 55 56
6 61 62 63 64 65 66