Beijing has ramped up efforts to use pinyin – the romanisation of Mandarin script – when referring to disputed islands and reefs in the South China Sea in English, seeking to bolster its ...

Article 9 of the proposed regulation stipulates a uniform approach to Romanization, mandating that all geographic names in China adhere to the Hanyu pinyin system. This system, which has been 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.

Zhou Youguang (漢語拼音之父周有光) is the scholar who invented pinyin, a system of romanisation for Chinese characters Since 1958, Chinese primary school students have learnt pinyin, before they learn ...

released a third set of names in Chinese, Tibetan and pinyin characters for Arunachal Pradesh, as part of its efforts to reemphasise its claim over the Indian state. China's Ministry of Civil ...

Jingles!) The next step in the evolution of Chinese IMEs was the invention of typing by phonetic spelling. It may be hard to believe, but pinyin, the modern way of spelling each Chinese word in a ...

In statements and articles, the Chinese foreign ministry and state media have dramatically increased their use of pinyin. For instance, they have replaced "Nansha Islands" with "Nansha Qundao" to ...