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Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. In official documents, it is referred to as the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet . Hanyu ( 汉语 ; 漢語 ) literally means ' Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means 'spelled sounds'.
Romanization of Chinese (Chinese: 中文拉丁化; pinyin: zhōngwén lādīnghuà) is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Chinese.Chinese uses a logographic script and its characters do not represent phonemes directly.
The Phags-pa script was an alphabet designed by Drogön Chögyal Phagpa at the behest of Kublai Khan during the Yuan dynasty, to unify the empire's various languages. While Phags-pa has aided in the reconstruction of pre-modern Chinese pronunciation, it totally ignores tone.
This Zhuyin table is a complete listing of all Zhuyin (Bopomofo) syllables used in the Republic of China as auxiliary to Chinese language studies while in Mainland China an adaptation of the Latin alphabet is used to represent Chinese phonemes in the Pinyin system.
The Hanyu Pinyin (or simply 'pinyin') alphabet had been developed, but plans to replace Chinese characters with it were deferred, and the idea is no longer actively pursued. This change in priorities may have been due in part to pinyin's design being specific to Mandarin, to the exclusion of other dialects. [61]
Pinyin Yale Guangdong Romanization Sidney Lau íː i1 i 1: ī i 1: i 1˚ îː i1 i 1: ì i 1: i 1: ǐː i2 i 2: í i 2: i 2: īː i3 i 3: i i 3: i 3: i̭ː i4 i 4: ìh i 4: i 4: i̬ː i5 i 5: íh i 5: i 5: ìː i6 i 6: ih i 6: i 6: ɪ́k̚ ik1 ik 7: īk ig 1: ik 1: ɪ̄k̚ ik3 ik 8: ik ig 3: ik 3: ɪ̀k̚ ik6 ik 9: ihk ig 6: ik 6
To arrange two Chinese characters into basic alphabetical order, [5] first compare the first letters of the pinyin letter strings of the two characters. If they are different, arrange the characters according to the letters' order in the alphabet (for example, 李 (lǐ) comes before 張 (zhāng), because the initial letter l is before initial letter z in the alphabet); if the first letters are ...
This pinyin table is a complete listing of all Hanyu Pinyin syllables used in Standard Chinese. Each syllable in a cell is composed of an initial (columns) and a final (rows). An empty cell indicates that the corresponding syllable does not exist in Standard Chinese.