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Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. Hanyu ( 汉语 ; 漢語 ) literally means ' Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means 'spelled sounds'.
官話字母; Guānhuà zìmǔ, developed by Wang Zhao (1859–1933), was the first alphabetic writing system for Chinese developed by a Chinese person. This system was modeled on Japanese katakana, which he learned during a two-year stay in Japan, and consisted of letters that were based on components of Chinese characters.
Hanyu Pinyin has developed from Mao's 1951 directive, through the promulgation on 1 November 1957 of a draft version by the State Council, [l] to its final form being approved by the State Council in September 1978, [m] to being accepted in 1982 by the International Organization for Standardization as the standard for transcribing Chinese.
IPA S. L. Wong Phonetic Symbols Bopomofo Extended S. L. Wong Romanization Guangdong Romanization ILE Jyutping Yale Sidney Lau Meyer– Wempe 呀 [aː] /a/ ㄚ: a: a: aa
Today the most common romanization for Standard Chinese is Hanyu Pinyin, introduced in 1956 by the PRC, and later adopted by Singapore and Taiwan. Pinyin is almost universally employed now for teaching standard spoken Chinese in schools and universities across the Americas, Australia, and Europe.
The value of Hanyu Pinyin in education in China lies in the fact that China, like any other populated area with comparable area and population, has numerous distinct dialects, though there is just one common written language and one common standardized spoken form. (These comments apply to romanization in general)
Bimspinyin, pinyin implementation for the xcin input platform on Linux, BSD, and other Unices. OpenVanilla, a cross-platform framework for Chinese and more. Ibus-Pinyin (ibus-pinyin), pinyin implementation for the IBus input platform on Linux, BSD, and other Unices. Ibus-sunpinyin, a statistical language model based pinyin input method for IBus.
Hanyu may refer to: Hànyǔ (漢語), the Chinese language or language of the Han Chinese Hanyu pinyin , the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan and Singapore