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Pinyin Overview
Pinyin
, or
Hanyu Pinyin
, is the official phonetic system for
transcribing
the
Mandarin
pronunciations of
Chinese characters
into the
Latin alphabet
in the
People's Republic of China
,
Taiwan (Republic of China)
,
and
Singapore
. It is often used to teach
Standard Chinese
and a pinyin without diacritic markers is often used in foreign publications to spell Chinese names familiar to non-Chinese and may be used as an
input method
to enter
Chinese characters
into computers.
The Hanyu Pinyin system was developed in the 1950s
. It was published by the Chinese government in 1958 and revised several times.
The
International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) adopted pinyin as an international standard in 1982.
The word
Hànyǔ
(
simplified Chinese
: 汉语;
traditional Chinese
: 漢語) means the spoken language of the
Han people
and
pīnyīn
(Chinese: 拼音) literally means "spelled-out sounds"
NOTE: Above information is obtained from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin#Initials_and_finals
.
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Pinyin - Overview
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PINYIN - Tones
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