Assigning Chinese names is no easy task. Because Chinese has no alphabet, each syllable must be approximated with a character.
给外国人做中文名并非易事，因为中文没有字母表，一个音节必须与其近音的汉字相对应。
The consonant that begins a syllable is called an initial and there are 21 of them in modern Chinese (the international Phonetic Alphabet in the brackets).
一个音节开头的辅音叫做声母。现代汉语一共有21个声母(方括弧内是国际音标)。
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