Pinyin is a system of romanizing Chinese characters, a.k.a. writing Chinese words with the Roman alphabet. For example, the word for hello, 你好, would be written “nǐ hǎo.” Pinyin is much ...

Since dozens of Chinese characters can share the same latinized ... “If you type in nihao [‘hello’ in Chinese] or something like that, [the app] can answer that without having to use the ...

Unversed in Chinese characters, they used fortune tellers and almanacs to decide my name based on the ideal number of strokes for each character, which was calculated for maximum auspiciousness.