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or pin·yin  (pĭn′yĭn′, -yĭn)
A system for transcribing the pronunciation of the standard variety of Mandarin using the Roman alphabet, officially adopted by the People's Republic of China in 1979.

[Mandarin pīn yīn, to combine sounds into syllables, spell : pīn, to combine (from Middle Chinese pjiajŋ) + yīn, sound, syllable (from Middle Chinese ʔim).]


(Linguistics) a system of romanized spelling developed in China in 1958: used to transliterate Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet



(sometimes cap.) a system for transliterating Chinese into the Latin alphabet, introduced in 1958 and officially adopted by the People's Republic of China in 1979.
[< Chinese pīnyīn literally, phonetic spelling (pīn arrange, classify + yīn sound, pronunciation)]


nPinyin (→ umschrift f) nt
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After the PRC's declaration to follow the Beijing standard, the Hanyu pinyin Romanization that the PRC designed under the auspices of Zhou Youguang [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] fully adopted the phonological framework of the zhuyin fuhao and GR, the counterpart Romanization to zhuyin fuhao.
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The entries use simplified Chinese characters and internationally standard pinyin Romanization. Those in the Chinese-English section are organized alphabetically according to pinyin.
The lines for each play are written English, simplified characters, and pinyin romanization; many of the stories recount fables.
In Pinyin romanization, the two-character name is written as one name, as in Lin Yutang's name.
Users can alternate between Chinese characters (Pinyin Romanization) and standard English.