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 ...

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 ...

Street signs in Kaohsiung would retain Romanized names based on the Tongyong pinyin system after a plan to switch to the more widely used Hanyu pinyin was rejected, the city government said on ...

Hanyu Pinyin, the Chinese phonetic system, celebrates its 50th anniversary today. About one billion Chinese have used it to learn Mandarin since the first edition of pinyin was issued in 1958. “Pinyin ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Zhou Youguang, a one-time Wall Street banker from China who developed Pinyin, a Romanised writing system that has helped more than 1 ...

Generation Y Chinese Singaporeans’ names comprise a combination of dialect and Hanyu Pinyin pronunciations. The surname invariably follows the dialect pronunciation, while the given name follows Hanyu ...

Zhou Youguang, father of pinyin, celebrated his 106th birthday (January 13th) with two cakes, one shaped like a typewriter and the other like a copy of his latest book. Among the enormous changes he ...