Mandarin Learning Basic

Yeah, that’s right. It is about another pronouncing for uu, but it’s represented by vocal u only. We can see in English that use latin character. The character j and z have similar pronouncing, that’s like for the s and x character. In mandarin language, if the word beginning in j or x, then with the u character, it will be pronounced uu, and the u pronouncing will use the character z and s. See the sample below for detail:

定居 spelling ‘ding(4) ju(1)’ with means ‘settle down’
或许 spelling ‘huo(4) xu(3)’ with means ‘ maybe, perhaps’
猪 spelling ‘zhu(1)’ with means ‘pig’
书 spelling ‘shu(1)’ with means ‘book’

In the first and second for the character ju(1) and huo(3), although that’s write use ‘u’ character, that’s pronounced in ‘uu’, don’t mistake. And for the two last, curtomarily pronouncing in ‘u’ vocal. Confusing….let’s learn step by step together…