Pinyin (disambiguation)
Appearance
Pinyin (Hànyǔ Pīnyīn) is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in China, Singapore and, since 2009, Taiwan.
Romanizations
[edit]Pinyin can also refer to other romanization systems used in China:
- For varieties of Chinese:
- Tongyong Pinyin, a romanization of Mandarin Chinese formerly used in Taiwan
- Wēituǒmǎ Pīnyīn, the Chinese name for the Wade–Giles system of Mandarin language romanization
- Cantonese Pinyin, a standard romanization of Cantonese used in Hong Kong
- Sichuanese Pinyin, a romanization of the Chengdu dialect of Sichuanese
- Yēlǔ pīnyīn, romanization systems of Asian languages developed at Yale:
- For other languages of China:
- Tibetan pinyin, the official transcription system for Standard Tibetan in China
- Uyghur pinyin, one of the official transcription systems for the Uyghur language in China
Other uses
[edit]- Pinyin language, a Niger–Congo language spoken by some 27,000 people in the Northwest region of Cameroon