Group 5
Group 5 ‘i’ in the syllables ‘zi’, ‘ci’ and ‘si’ is not the common final ‘i’, but a blade-alveolar vowel. The pronunciations of the syllables ‘zi’, ‘ci’ and ‘si’ are the same as those of the initials ‘z’, ‘c’ and ‘s’.
zi = z
ci = c
si = s
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