Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. In official documents, it is referred to as the Chinese Phonetic...
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Since 1 January 2009, the Ministry of Education has officially promoted Hanyu Pinyin (per decision on 16 September 2008); local governments would "not be...
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Look up Hanyu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hanyu may refer to: Hànyǔ (汉语), the Chinese language or language of the Han people Hanyu pinyin, the official...
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Wade–Giles (redirect from Wēituǒmǎ pīnyīn)
uses). In mainland China Wade–Giles has been mostly replaced by the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system, which was officially adopted in 1958, with exceptions...
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Endonym and exonym (section Hanyu Pinyin)
standardization of Hanyu Pinyin has only seen mixed results. In Taipei, most (but not all) street and district names shifted to Hanyu Pinyin. For example,...
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Romanization of Chinese (section Hanyu Pinyin)
international standard for Standard Mandarin since about 1982 has been Hanyu Pinyin, invented by a group of Chinese linguists, including Zhou Youguang, in...
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Chinese language (redirect from Hànyu)
Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages...
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Ü (section Tonal marks for Hanyu Pinyin)
uses it for [y]. This same letter appears in the Chinese Romanisations Pinyin, Wade–Giles, and the German-based Lessing-Othmer, where it represents the...
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Chinese postal romanization (redirect from Pinyin of Postal System)
official in Taiwan until 2002, when Tongyong Pinyin was adopted. In 2009, Hanyu Pinyin replaced Tongyong Pinyin as the official romanization (see Chinese...
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Explanation, and the Chengdu Dialect Dictionary. Sichuanese Pinyin is based on Hanyu Pinyin, the only Chinese romanization system officially instructed...
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Xiandai Hanyu Cidian (simplified Chinese: 现代汉语词典; traditional Chinese: 現代漢語詞典; pinyin: Xiàndài Hànyǔ Cídiǎn; lit. 'Modern Han Language Word Dictionary')...
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Chinese language romanization in Taiwan (redirect from Taiwan pinyin)
internationalization of Hanyu Pinyin in the 1980s), or Gwoyeu Romatzyh (a system that records tones without tone marks). After a long debate, Hanyu Pinyin, the official...
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Xiao'erjing (section Correspondences with pinyin)
fatḥah () representing the short vowel -ă. Xiao'erjing is similar to Hanyu Pinyin in the respect that words are written as one, while a space is inserted...
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beast (traditional Chinese: 年獸; simplified Chinese: 年兽; Hanyu Pinyin: Nián shòu; Tongyong Pinyin: Nián shòu; Wade–Giles: Nien2 shou4; Cantonese Yale: Nìhn...
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The Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK; Chinese: 汉语水平考试; pinyin: Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì), translated as the Chinese Proficiency Test, is the People's Republic of...
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Mo Li Hua (section Hanyu Pinyin)
"Mo Li Hua" (Chinese: 茉莉花; pinyin: Mòlìhuā or Mòlihuā[a]; lit. 'Jasmine Flower'[b]) is a Chinese folk song from the Jiangnan region. The song dates back...
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and was the product of multiple authors. Laozi /ˈlaʊdzə/ is the modern pinyin romanization of 老子. It is not a personal name, but rather an honorific title...
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Tofu (Japanese: 豆腐, Hepburn: Tōfu, Korean: 두부; RR: dubu, Chinese: 豆腐; pinyin: dòufu) is a food prepared by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting...
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surname written 王 (Wáng in Hanyu Pinyin) Hokkien romanization of the Chinese surname written 邢 (Xíng in Hanyu Pinyin) pinyin romanization of the less-common...
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The IETF language tag for Tibetan pinyin is bo-Latn-pinyin. China portal Asia portal Languages portal Hanyu pinyin Standard Tibetan THL Simplified Phonetic...
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Standard Chinese (section Hanyu and Zhongwen)
Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代标准汉语; traditional Chinese: 現代標準漢語; pinyin: Xiàndài biāozhǔn hànyǔ; lit. 'modern standard Han speech') is a modern standard form...
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Guangdong Romanization (redirect from Kejiahua Pinyin Fang'an)
spoken varieties. In certain respects, Guangdong romanization resembles pinyin in its distinction of the alveolar initials z, c, s from the alveolo-palatal...
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nationalist politics. Tianchao (天朝; pinyin: Tiāncháo), translated as 'heavenly dynasty' or 'Celestial Empire', and Tianxia (天下; pinyin: Tiānxià) translated as 'All...
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replaced—largely by Hanyu Pinyin (or simply 'pinyin'), which became the international standard romanization during the second half of the 20th century. Pinyin itself...
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Jyutping (section Comparison with Cantonese pinyin)
language") and ping3 jam1 (拼音 "phonetic alphabet", also pronounced as "pinyin" in Mandarin). Despite being intended as a system to indicate pronunciation...
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Chinese plum. The name loquat derives from Cantonese lou4 gwat1 (Chinese: 盧橘; pinyin: lújú; lit. 'black orange'). The phrase 'black orange' originally referred...
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This pinyin table is a complete listing of all Hanyu Pinyin syllables used in Standard Chinese. Each syllable in a cell is composed of an initial (columns)...
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and Harmonious Fists (traditional Chinese: 義和拳; simplified Chinese: 义和拳; pinyin: Yìhéquán; Wade–Giles: I4-ho2-ch'üan2) among other names, were a Chinese...
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Mongolian, Tibetan and Uyghur, officially known as pinyin, Regulation of Phonetic Transcription in Hanyu Pinyin Letters of Place Names in Minority Nationality...
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