Pinyin (disambiguation)

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Pinyin (Chinese: 拼音; pinyin: pīnyīn) is a system of romanization for the Chinese language, where pin means "spell" and yin means "sound". It can refer to several transcription systems for Chinese:

  • Hanyu Pinyin, what most people mean when referring to pinyin
  • Tongyong Pinyin, a derivative of Hanyu Pinyin created in the late 1990s in the Republic of China (Taiwan)
  • Weituoma Pīnyīn (Wēituǒmǎ Pīnyīn), the Chinese name for the Wade-Giles system of Mandarin language romanization
  • Standard Cantonese Pinyin, a standard romanization of Cantonese used in Hong Kong
  • Yale Romanization, four romanization systems of Asian languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Japanese) created during World War II for use by United States military personnel