Phoneme: zh

IPA: [ʒ]

zh [ʒ]: voiced post-alveolar fricative


Word: shizhi’ [ʃɪʒɪʔ] “my name"

Description: The voiced post-alveolar fricative zh [ʒ] in stem initial position preceded by the first-person, singular prefix in the ø-conjugation. It shows obstruent fricative [ʒ] as a fully voiced.