The father of hanyu pinyin, Mr Zhou Youguang, turned 109 on Tuesday. The linguist and dissident came up with the system of transliterating Chinese characters into roman letters in the 1950s. The ...

Hanyu Pinyin, or the Chinese phonetic system, will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Monday (Feb. 11). One billion Chinese have used it to learn mandarin since the first edition of pinyin was issued ...

Pinyin, the official Romanization system for standard Chinese, is widely used in learning how to read Chinese characters. After the death of famed Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang on Saturday, Chinese ...

SINGAPORE — Instead of teaching children how to read Chinese language characters with Hanyu Pinyin and putting them through repetitive writing exercises, schools should focus more on their ...

An alliance of pro-localization groups, formed to oppose the exclusive use of Hanyu pinyin to translate station names into English on the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) ...