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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Chinese foreign ministry and state media articles have increased their use of pinyin for place names in the contested area It ...