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Pinyin is a way of writing Mandarin Chinese with the Roman alphabet — the same letters English uses. The People’s Republic of China made it official in 1958, and Western newspapers, maps, and passports now use it for Chinese names: we write Beijing, not . The Chinese name means “spelled sounds”: you write how the word sounds, not the character. Pinyin is not a language, and it does not replace characters; it is a for sound and for readers who cannot read characters. Real Pinyin marks tones (mā, má, mǎ, mà). In casual English those marks often disappear, which makes different words look the same. Though actually, if you grew up in Taiwan you were probably taught Zhuyin (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ) at school, not Pinyin. You will still meet Pinyin in the rest of the world, in many dictionaries, and anywhere mainland names are written for international readers.
漢語拼音。台灣學校主要教注音（ㄅㄆㄇㄈ）；拼音是中國大陸的官方系統，國際文件、外報也用它。
組成20th c., from Mandarin Chinese 拼音 (pīnyīn, literally “spelled sounds”).
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Pinyinname詞源 1/ˈpɪnjɪn/
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A system of romanization for Standard Mandarin, used in the People’s Republic of China, and more recently in other Mandarin Chinese-speaking areas as well.
- The Chinese government began using the new system Jan. 1 in all its foreign language publications, including the English-language service of the New China News Agency. This is an important source for American journalists writing about China. The United Nations and U.S. government agencies have adopted the new spellings called by the Chinese "Pinyin" meaning "phonetic spelling."[…] The old spelling system, named the Wade-Giles system after the two 19th century Britons who developed it, made correct pronunciation unnecessarily difficult. It used apostrophes to distinguish aspirated consonants, such as p'ai pronounced with a "p" sound, from unaspirated, such as pai pronounced with a "b" sound. The new Pinyin system eliminates this distinction, which most newspapers ignored anyway. "Beijing" is much closer to the Chinese pronunciation that "Peking", and Vice Premier "Deng" is better rendering than "Teng." But the new system uses some letters in ways that still confuse English speakers. Thers difficult letters are: "c" which should be prounced in this system like the "ts" in "its"; "q" which should be pronounced like the "ch" in "cheek"; "x" which should be pronounced like the "sh" in "she"; and "zh" which should be pronounced like the "j" in "jump".[…] Reading the alphabetized words still presents problems for the Chinese, however, because the spellings do not distinguish the flur separate tones in the Chinese language that can significantly change meaning. The word "ma" can mean "mother", "horse", or "scold", depending on what tone is used. Under the Pinyin system, two neighboring provinces of northern China are both spelled "Shanxi". In this special case, one of the provinces is now spelled "Shaanzi", to indicate a different tone in the first syllable.
Pinyinnoun詞源 1/ˈpɪnjɪn/
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A phonetic script or romanization system for various languages spoken in the People's Republic of China, e.g. Tibetan
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Pinyin.
Pinyinname詞源 2
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A Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。