Group 6
‘i’ in the syllables ‘zhi’, ‘chi’, ‘shi’ and ‘ri’ is not the common final ‘i’, but a blade-palatal vowel. The pronunciations of the syllables ‘zhi’ , ‘chi’, ‘shi’ and ‘ri’ are the same as those of the initials ‘zh’, ‘ch’, ‘sh’ and ‘r’.
zhi = zh
chi = ch
shi = sh
ri = r
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