The pinyin system has around 1,300 pronunciations for 10,000 common simplified characters, ... Standardizing language ...

In 2022, she built a non-profit online group to teach pinyin to parents. The group meets once a month and covers China's development, culture and customs in addition to language.

Zhou Youguang, a onetime Wall Street banker from China who developed Pinyin, a Romanized writing system that has helped more than 1 billion Chinese and countless foreigners learn Mandarin, died ...

Poon says Cantonese Pinyin would be useful in other ways. For instance, in poetry, “when you recite a poem [written hundreds of years ago] in Putonghua, the endings won’t always rhyme,” says ...

Most people have probably never heard of 111-year-old linguist Zhou Youguang. But if you’re learning Chinese, you’ve seen his work. He helped develop the pinyin writing system – the ...

The pinyin system has around 1,300 pronunciations for 10,000 common simplified characters, meaning each pronunciation corresponds to about seven homophones. To make things worse, consonants like "z," ...