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Pinyin|pɪnˈjɪn|
Also Pin-yin, Pin-Yin.
[a. Chinese pīn-yīn, lit. ‘spell sound’.]
A system of Romanized spelling for the Chinese language, adopted officially by the People's Republic of China in stages since 1958. Also attrib.
[1959W. Simon Chinese Radicals & Phonetics (rev. ed.) 432 A further Scheme, apparently to be regarded as final,..on 11th February 1958 was approved by the Fifth Session of the First National People's Congress. Its Chinese name is Hanyu-Pinyin-Fang'an..(Chinese Language Spelling Scheme).] 1963McGraw-Hill Mod. Chinese-Eng. Dict. p. iii/2 The Pinyin romanization, or ‘phonetic construction’, using the Roman alphabet, is very similar to the Wade-Giles system which has been standard in the Western world till very recently. 1972Computers & Humanities VII. 262 The romanization system used in this article is Pinyin, adopted by the People's Republic of China as its official transcription system. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVI. 801/1 The Pin-yin system indicates unaspirated stops and affricatives by means of traditionally voiced consonants. 1977Daily Tel. 10 Jan. 4/5 Primary school children are taught the ‘Pin-Yin’ system of writing the Peking dialect in the Roman alphabet before they tackle the more difficult system of Chinese characters. Ibid., Most Chinese adults cannot read ‘Pin-Yin’ on its own. 1979China Now Jan.-Feb. 9/1 The State Council has issued a document stipulating that pinyin romanization is ‘suited to all languages using the Roman alphabet’. |