But if you’re learning Chinese, you’ve seen his work. He helped develop the pinyin writing system – the romanised version of the Chinese language. You might recognise pinyin from your ...

Well, you're not alone. It's a challenge many of us face, and it stems from the way Chinese names are romanized using Pinyin, the standardized system for Mandarin pronunciation. The ...

Chinese researchers seek ways to be distinguished in a world where their work is not published using their Mandarin name In academic research, identifying authorship is a unique challenge for Chinese ...

Cantonese Pinyin is rarely used to learn pronunciations of Traditional Chinese. So, Young Post chatted with Poon Hon-kwong, Associate Professor at Hong Kong University, to figure out the ...

But there’s an easy way to learn Chinese pronunciation quickly: through pinyin. Pinyin is a system of romanizing Chinese characters, a.k.a. writing Chinese words with the Roman alphabet.

Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their learners. They took the letters of the Roman alphabet, the same we use for ...