Pinyinn.

Brit.

/ˌpɪnˈjɪn/, U.S.

/ˈpɪnˈjɪn/

Forms: 1900s– Pin-Yin, 1900s– Pinyin. Also with lower-case initial(s).

Origin: A borrowing from Chinese. Etymon: Chinese pīnyīn.

Etymology: < Chinese pīnyīn < pīn to put together + yīn sound.For earlier use of the Chinese word in an English context compare:1959 W. 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).

The standard system of romanized spelling for transliterating the Chinese language, adopted officially by the People's Republic of China in 1979 and based on the pronunciation of the Peking (now Beijing) dialect of Mandarin Chinese. Frequently attributive. Cf. Wade-Giles n.

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Pinyin1963

1963 McGraw-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.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVI. 801/1 The Pin-yin system indicates unaspirated stops and affricatives by means of traditionally voiced consonants.

1977 Daily 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.

1979 China 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’.

1994 Discover June 113/1 Chinese children take at least ten times longer to learn to read traditional Chinese characters than pinyin, a Chinese adaptation of the Latin alphabet.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pinyin
释义	Pinyinn. Brit. /ˌpɪnˈjɪn/, U.S. /ˈpɪnˈjɪn/ Forms: 1900s– Pin-Yin, 1900s– Pinyin. Also with lower-case initial(s). Origin: A borrowing from Chinese. Etymon: Chinese pīnyīn. Etymology: < Chinese pīnyīn < pīn to put together + yīn sound.For earlier use of the Chinese word in an English context compare:1959 W. 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). The standard system of romanized spelling for transliterating the Chinese language, adopted officially by the People's Republic of China in 1979 and based on the pronunciation of the Peking (now Beijing) dialect of Mandarin Chinese. Frequently attributive. Cf. Wade-Giles n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Sino-Tibetan > [noun] > Chinese > Mandarin > romanized spelling of Pinyin1963 1963 McGraw-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. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVI. 801/1 The Pin-yin system indicates unaspirated stops and affricatives by means of traditionally voiced consonants. 1977 Daily 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. 1979 China 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’. 1994 Discover June 113/1 Chinese children take at least ten times longer to learn to read traditional Chinese characters than pinyin, a Chinese adaptation of the Latin alphabet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1963
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