Pinyin is a system of romanizing Chinese characters, a.k.a. writing Chinese words with the Roman alphabet. For example, the word for hello, 你好, would be written “nǐ hǎo.” Pinyin is much ...

When romanized, his name may seem straightforward, but it actually represents multiple Chinese characters with the same Pinyin spelling, "wei." This overlap makes it difficult to know which ...

Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their learners. They took the letters of the Roman alphabet, the same we use for ...

It shows how Mandarin is taught in schools with the correct tones and using pinyin, a romanised form of spelling. There's a brief introduction to how Chinese characters are formed and how ...

“They don’t have to rely on Pinyin to express themselves,” says Poon, “since Hongkongers learn how to pronounce Traditional Chinese characters from the media as well as through their daily ...

Many Chinese keyboard apps, some from major handset manufacturers, can leak keystrokes to determined snoopers, leaving perhaps three quarters of a billion people at risk according to research from ...

In academic research, identifying authorship is a unique challenge for Chinese ... in Chinese characters. Chinese scientists told the Post that publishing under just their pinyin name – in ...