Pinyin

pinyin pīnyīn p'in-yin Pin-yin English Etymology 1 20th c., from en cmn - en zh - 拼音 spelled sounds. Alternative forms en pinyin en Pin-yin en p'in-yin Wade-Giles Pronunciation pĭn'yĭn, en /ˈpɪnjɪn/ en [ˈpənjən] weak vowel merger pēn'yēn InE, en /ˈpinjin/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Pinyin.wav Southern England en ɪnjɪn 2 Proper noun en Q42222A system of romanization for Standard Mandarin, used in the People’s Republic of China, and more recently in other Mandarin Chinese-speaking areas as well. from 20th c. en Hanyu Pinyin en March 5, 1979 w:Jay Mathews China Is China, But Hangchow Is Hangzhou w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20231229120226/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/03/05/china-is-china-but-hangchow-is-hangzhou/0fdd559d-7499-4cec-8e8e-6036f5b50640/ 29 December 2023 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/03/05/china-is-china-but-hangchow-is-hangzhou/0fdd559d-7499-4cec-8e8e-6036f5b50640/ 0190-8286 2269358 The Chinese government began using the new system Jan. 1 in all its foreign language publications, including the English-language service of the New China News Agency. This is an important source for American journalists writing about China. The United Nations and U.S. government agencies have adopted the new spellings called by the Chinese "Pinyin" meaning "phonetic spelling."The old spelling system, named the Wade-Giles system after the two 19th century Britons who developed it, made correct pronunciation unnecessarily difficult. It used apostrophes to distinguish aspirated consonants, such as p'ai pronounced with a "p" sound, from unaspirated, such as pai pronounced with a "b" sound. The new Pinyin system eliminates this distinction, which most newspapers ignored anyway. "Beijing" is much closer to the Chinese pronunciation that "Peking", and Vice Premier "Deng" is better rendering than "Teng." But the new system uses some letters in ways that still confuse English speakers. Thers difficult letters are: "c" which should be prounced in this system like the "ts" in "its"; "q" which should be pronounced like the "ch" in "cheek"; "x" which should be pronounced like the "sh" in "she"; and "zh" which should be pronounced like the "j" in "jump".Reading the alphabetized words still presents problems for the Chinese, however, because the spellings do not distinguish the flur separate tones in the Chinese language that can significantly change meaning. The word "ma" can mean "mother", "horse", or "scold", depending on what tone is used. Under the Pinyin system, two neighboring provinces of northern China are both spelled "Shanxi". In this special case, one of the provinces is now spelled "Shaanzi", to indicate a different tone in the first syllable. Derived terms en Pinyinisation Pinyinization Pinyinize Translations romanization of Mandarin Chinese Arabic: ar بِينْيِن m, ar بِينْيِن m pīnyin Armenian: hy փինյին Belarusian: be піньі́нь m Bulgarian: bg пини́н m Chinese: Cantonese: yue 拼音 ping3 jam1, yue 漢語拼音 hon3 jyu5 ping3 jam1 full name Mandarin: cmn 拼音, full name cmn 漢語拼音 Czech: cs pinyin m, cs pchin-jin m Esperanto: eo pinjino Finnish: fi pinyin French: fr pinyin m Georgian: ka პინ-ინი German: de Pinyin n Greek: el πινγίν n Hebrew: he פין-יין m pin-yin Hindi: hi पिन्यिन, hi फीनयीन closer to chinese phonetics Hungarian: hu pinjin Japanese: ja ピンイン pin'in, ja 拼音 ぴんいん, pin'in, ja ピン音 pin'in, ja 併音 ぴんいん, pin'in Kazakh: kk пінін Korean: ko 병음(拼音), ko 한어 병음(漢語拼音) Latvian: lv piņjiņs m Macedonian: mk пи́нјин m Marathi: mr फीनयीन Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn пинь-инь Persian: fa پین‌یین pin-yin Polish: pl pinyin m Portuguese: pt pinyin m, pt piniim m Romanian: ro pinyin n Russian: ru пиньи́нь m, ru ханью́й пиньи́нь m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh пинјин m Latin: sh pinjin m, sh pinyin m Spanish: es pinyin m Tamil: ta பின்யின் Thai: th พินอิน pin-in Ukrainian: uk піньї́нь m Uyghur: ug پىنيىن Vietnamese: vi bính âm (vi 拼音) Zhuang: za bingq, za gyoeb-yaem Noun ? A phonetic script or romanization system for various languages spoken in the People's Republic of China, e.g. Tibetan pinyin Tibetan from 20th c. en See also Tongyong Pinyin en Gwoyeu Romatzyh en romaji en Wade-Giles en Yale en Bopomofo en Zhuyin fuhao Further reading Pinyin romanization in Encyclopædia Britannica including Pinyin to Wade-Giles conversions chart pn Etymology 2 + language Proper noun A Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon. See also pny Further reading pny en autological terms terms with optional capitalization en Languages Chinese Spanish Etymology es :der cmn:拼音 + 1 Pronunciation Proper noun m - es pinyin