Pinyin Syllable

Chinese characters pronounced tuan

Learn common Chinese characters pronounced tuan, including 团 tuán. Compare tones, meanings, traditional forms, words, and example sentences.

How to Pronounce This Syllable

For tuan, push a small puff of air on t, join it to uan, and hold the tone over the whole syllable.

Start the syllable on the initial t, then run straight into the final uan — keep them joined instead of sounding out separate English letters.

Settle the final uan into a steady mouth shape first, then lay the tone on top.

Only one common character is read tuan (团 tuán) — focus on locking in its tone.

tuan turns up here with 1 different tone; a change of tone usually means a different character, so the groups below are split by tone.

Taking the 2nd tone here: 团 (1 in total). Lock this tone in your ear before the meaning.

Seeing tuan inside whole words makes it clear which character is meant — here are common ones.

1 common character in this group.