Introduction to compound finals

Compound final consists of either two or three vowels, or a combination of one or two vowels with a nasal ending. For each compound final, there is a primary vowel which is the loudest vowel, and is usually longer in duration.

There are only two nasal endings in Mandarin, namely "-n" and "-ng". Notably, any Cantonese syllables that end with -m are altered to end with the nasal sound "-n" in Mandarin. See the table below:

Moreover, there is no syllable ending with a stop consonant in Mandarin, such as "-p", "-t" and "-k", which is quite different from Cantonese.