pinyin was developed by Chinese linguists as an official romanization system for the pronunciation of Mandarin. It renders Chinese characters in the letters of the Roman alphabet, enabling anyone ...

Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their learners. They took the letters of the Roman alphabet, the same we use for ...

On January 14 last year, we lost Chinese linguist and economist Zhou Youguang, who passed away one day after his 111th birthday. An accomplished scholar in a number of fields, Zhou is best known for ...

Note: The Hanyu Pinyin variant with tone diacritics uses a middle dot (·) by default to indicate the fifth (neutral) tone. However, this library includes an optional method to print the Pinyin ...

This is the main repository for the Pinyin Beginners Anki Deck. This deck is targeted to those starting to learn Mandarin Chinese and want to know how are "syllables" pronunced. All cards are ...

Journalist, blogger, podcaster and author Qin Xie previously explained for Metro : ‘Happy Chinese New Year is xin nian (new ...