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Pinyin

The Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, commonly called Hanyu Pinyin or simply pinyin (pīnyīn), is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. Hanyu literally means 'Han language' — that is, the Chinese language — while pinyin literally means 'spelled sounds'. Pinyin is the official romanization system used in China, Singapore and the United…

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Bopomofo
ㄆㄧㄣ ㄧㄣ · ㄏㄢˋ ㄩˇ ㄆㄧㄣ ㄧㄣ ㄈㄤ ㄢˋ
Canton Romanization
ping3yem1 · Hon3yu5 Ping3yem1 Fong1on3
Chinese
拼音
Creator
Zhou Youguang
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Hannyeu Pinin Fangann
Hanyu Pinyin
pīnyīn · Hànyǔ Pīnyīn Fāng'àn

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Pinyin

Nodes125
Edges124
Triples244
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.016
Components1

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Pinyin

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related to background · 42
Pinyin → Aid, Beijing, China, Chinese, During, Ears, English Dictionary, English-language, Eyes, Giles, Hangzhou, Hanyu Pinyin, Herbert Giles, Hsi, Hsi-tzŭ Ch'i-chi, In, It, Japan, Jesuit, Jesuit Nicolas Trigault
related to Development · 25
Pinyin → But, China, Chinese, Chinese Written Language, Committee, Earlier, Education, Gwoyeu Romatzyh, Hanyu Pinyin, I'm, It's, Latinxua Sin Wenz, Li Jinxi, Lu Zhiwei, Luo Changpei, Ministry, New York, People's Republic, Premier Zhou Enlai, Qing
related to Spacing · 22
Pinyin → According, China, Chinese, Chinese Phonetic Alphabet Orthography, Education, GB, However, In, Latin, Like, Mair, Mandarin, Ministry, National Educational, National Language, Script Reform Committee, Standard Chinese, State Council, State Language Commission, The Basic Rules
related to Special names · 19
Pinyin → Chinese, Geographical Names Committee, Han, Hanyu Pinyin Letters, In, Mapping, Minority Nationality Languages, Mongolian, Phonetic Transcription, Place Names, Regulation, Roman, SASM/GNC, State Administration, Surveying, The, This, Tibetan, Uyghur
related to Comparison with other orthographies · 18
Pinyin → American Library Association, By, China, Chinese, Compared, Congress, English, Giles, However, ISO, It, Latin, Singapore, The ISO, The United Nations, This, United States's Library, Wade
related to Typography and encoding · 13
Pinyin → According, Based, Chinese, Chinese Romanization, Combining Diacritical Marks, English, GB, ISO, JIS, Lowercase, Other, Spacing Modifier Letters, Unicode
related to Finals · 10
Pinyin → Cantonese, Chinese, In, International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA, Mandarin, Old Chinese, Other, Standard Chinese, The
related to Tones · 8
Pinyin → Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin, If, In, Mandarin, The, There, Tones
related to Usage · 8
Pinyin → Children, China, Chinese, English, Families, Mandarin, Taiwan, The
related to Placement and omission · 7
Pinyin → Briefly, However, In, That, There, This, When

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Important terminology

chinese used system hanyu romanization use characters standard tone china phonetic language written letters vowel alphabet mandarin taiwan names systems

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
PinyinBopomofoㄆㄧㄣ ㄧㄣ1.00infobox
PinyinBopomofoㄏㄢˋ ㄩˇ ㄆㄧㄣ ㄧㄣ ㄈㄤ ㄢˋ1.00infobox
PinyinCanton Romanizationping3yem11.00infobox
PinyinCanton RomanizationHon3yu5 Ping3yem1 Fong1on31.00infobox
PinyinChinese拼音1.00infobox
PinyinCreatorZhou Youguang1.00infobox
PinyinGwoyeu RomatzyhHannyeu Pinin Fangann1.00infobox
PinyinHanyu Pinyinpīnyīn1.00infobox
PinyinHanyu PinyinHànyǔ Pīnyīn Fāng'àn1.00infobox
PinyinHokkien POJpheng-im1.00infobox
PinyinHokkien POJHàn-gú pheng-im hong-àn1.00infobox
PinyinIPA[pʰín.ín]1.00infobox
PinyinIPA[pʰɪŋ˧ jɐm˥]1.00infobox
PinyinIPA[xân.ỳ pʰín.ín fáŋ.ân]1.00infobox
PinyinIPA[hɔ̄ːn.y̬ː pʰēŋ.jɐ́m fɔ́ːŋ.ɔ̄ːn]1.00infobox
PinyinJyutpingping3 jam11.00infobox
PinyinJyutpingHon3 jyu5 ping3 jam1 fong1 on31.00infobox
PinyinLanguagesStandard Chinese1.00infobox
PinyinLiteral meaningspelled sounds1.00infobox
PinyinLiteral meaningscheme of spelled Han language sounds1.00infobox
PinyinOfficial scriptChina (from 1958)1.00infobox
PinyinOfficial scriptSingapore (from 1980)1.00infobox
PinyinOfficial scriptUnited Nations (from 1986)1.00infobox
PinyinOfficial scriptTaiwan (from 2009)1.00infobox
PinyinPublished11 February 19581.00infobox
PinyinPublished1982 (ISO 7098)1.00infobox
PinyinRomanizationphin平 in平1.00infobox
PinyinRomanizationpin24 im241.00infobox
PinyinRomanizationHoe去 nyiu上 phin平 in平 faon平 oe去1.00infobox
PinyinRomanizationHon55 ngi24 pin24 im24 fong24 on551.00infobox

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