Powerset

Microsoft
Keyboard shortcuts: On toggle Off help
Finding:
Freebase
searching
Factz
searching
Articles
searching

Pinyin

freebase

help
Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu means the Chinese language, and pinyin means "spell sound", or the spelling of the sound. Developed by a government committee in the People's Republic of China, the system was initially approved by the Chinese government on February 11, 1958 . The International Organization for... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

Factz from Wikipedia: we found the following about Pinyin help

used :
alphabet, orthography, Ü, marks, vowel, apostrophes, Pinyin, caron, yu and diacritics.

Results for "Pinyin used alphabet"

Written Chinese Pinyin uses the Latin alphabet, along with a few diacritical marks, to represent the sounds of Mandarin in standard pronunciation.

Romanization of Chinese Should Hanyu Pinyin use the Latin alphabet?

Results for "Pinyin used orthography"

Pinyin For other finals formed by the suffix -r, pinyin does not use special orthography; one simply appends -r to the final that it is added to, without regard for any sound changes that may take place along the way.

Results for "Pinyin used Ü"

Ü Pinyin uses Ü only when ambiguity could arise with similarly romanized words containing a U, whereas Wade-Giles and Lessing use Ü in all situations.

Results for "Pinyin used marks"

Bopomofo (Tongyong Pinyin on Taiwan uses identical tone marks to bopomofo.)

Results for "Pinyin used vowel"

Written Chinese For the most part, pinyin uses vowel and consonant letters as they are used in Romance languages (and also in IPA).

Results for "Pinyin used apostrophes"

Wade-Giles In addition to the apostrophes used for distinguishing the multiple sounds of a single Latin symbol, Wade-Giles uses hyphens to separate all syllables within a word, whereas Pinyin only uses apostrophes to separate ambiguous syllables.

Results for "Pinyin used Pinyin"

Pinyin method Using Google Pinyin as an example, when encountering a suspected typo, Google Pinyin would show both the word candidates assuming it is correct and the word candidates assuming it is a typo.

Results for "Pinyin used caron"

Breve Note that Pinyin uses the caron, not the breve, to indicate the third tone of Mandarin Chinese.

Results for "Pinyin used yu"

Pinyin This practice is opposed to Wade-Giles, which always uses ü, and Tongyong pinyin, which always uses yu.

Results for "Pinyin used diacritics"

Wade-Giles Wade-Giles uses superscript numbers to indicate tone, and official Pinyin uses diacritics.

represented :
pronunciations and sounds.

Results for "Pinyin represented pronunciations"

Jyutping Jyutping and the Standard Cantonese Pinyin represent Cantonese pronunciations with the same letters in:

Standard Cantonese Pinyin Standard Cantonese Pinyin and the Yale romanization system represent Cantonese pronunciations with the same letters in:

Standard Cantonese Pinyin Standard Cantonese Pinyin and Jyutping represent Cantonese pronunciations with the same letters in:

Shenyang Dialect Because of its similarity to Standard Mandarin, pinyin can be used to represent the pronunciation.

Shenyang Mandarin Because of its similarity to Standard Mandarin, pinyin can be used to represent the pronunciation.

Results for "Pinyin represented sounds"

Written Chinese Pinyin uses the Latin alphabet, along with a few diacritical marks, to represent the sounds of Mandarin in standard pronunciation.

Keyboard layout Keyboards used in the mainland of the People’s Republic of China typically use a English US (QWERTY) keyboard and input Chinese characters using Hanyu pinyin, which represents the sounds of Chinese characters using Latin letters.

superseded :
zhuyin, systems, Romanization and characters.

Results for "Pinyin superseded zhuyin"

Pinyin Pinyin superseded older romanization systems such as Wade-Giles (1859; modified 1892) and Chinese Postal Map Romanization, and replaced zhuyin as the method of Chinese phonetic instruction in mainland China.

Results for "Pinyin superseded systems"

Pinyin Pinyin superseded older romanization systems such as Wade-Giles (1859; modified 1892) and Chinese Postal Map Romanization, and replaced zhuyin as the method of Chinese phonetic instruction in mainland China.

Results for "Pinyin superseded Romanization"

Pinyin Pinyin superseded older romanization systems such as Wade-Giles (1859; modified 1892) and Chinese Postal Map Romanization, and replaced zhuyin as the method of Chinese phonetic instruction in mainland China.

Results for "Pinyin superseded characters"

Romanization of Chinese Was Hanyu Pinyin going to supersede Chinese written characters altogether, or would it simply provide a guide to pronunciation?

more showing 3 of 40
false
100
Wikipedia Articles: results 1 - 10 of 12087
help
  1. close

    Pinyin

    Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu means the Chinese language, and pinyin means "spell sound", or the spelling of the sound.
  2. close

    Pinyin (disambiguation)

    Pinyin (Chinese: 拼音; pinyin: pīnyīn) is a system of romanization for the Chinese language, where pin means "spell" and yin means "sound". It can refer to several transcription systems for Chinese:
  3. close

    Tongyong Pinyin

    However, in 2006, the Ministry of Education rejected the use of Tongyong Pinyin for the Taiwanese dialect in favor of Pe̍h-ōe-jī (台羅版拼音).
  4. close

    Pinyin method

    The pinyin method (simplified Chinese: 拼音输入法; traditional Chinese: 拼音輸入法; pinyin: pīnyīn shūrù fǎ) refers to a family of input methods based on the pinyin method of romanization.
  5. close

    Pinyin table

    This pinyin table is a complete listing of all Hanyu Pinyin syllables used in Standard Mandarin. Each syllable in a cell is composed of an initial (columns) and a final (rows).
  6. close

    Google Pinyin

    Google Pinyin IME (谷歌拼音输入法) is an input method developed by Google China Labs.
  7. close

    Tibetan Pinyin

    Tibetan Pinyin is based on the Lhasa dialect and reflects the pronunciation very accurately, except that it doesn't mark tones.
  8. close

    Standard Cantonese Pinyin

    The vowels oe represent [ɵ] and [œː] in Standard Cantonese Pinyin while the eu represents both vowels in Yale.
  9. close

    Sogou Pinyin

    Sogou Pinyin Developed by Sohu Latest release 3.6 / 2008-09-11 OS Microsoft Windows Available in Simplified Chinese Type Input method Website Sogou Pinyin
  10. close

    Tibetan pinyin

    Tibetan pinyin is the official transcription system for the Tibetan language in the People's Republic of China.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

parse:article:Pinyin
Pinyin