Can Mandarin pronunciation be coded by ARPABET phone set?

Question

The code doesn't need to be exactly correct. A pronunciation in English can be used to represent a similar pronunciation in Chinese, eg /ʈ͡ʂ/ can use "CH" to represent.

Answer 1

How close do you want to get?

ARPABET was designed for General American English .

You can compare the charts for consonants in the above article to a similar chart for Mandarin . It looks to me like there are some significant differences.

But I suspect a bigger issue is going to be that tonality is fundamental to vowel production in Mandarin.