Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their learners. They took the letters of the Roman alphabet, the same we use for ...

Chinese researchers seek ways to be distinguished in a world where their work is not published using their Mandarin name In academic research, identifying authorship is a unique challenge for Chinese ...

“Since Hanyu Pinyin uses the same 26 letters as the English alphabet, it is much easier to memorise them.” For most non-native speakers and bilingual Hongkongers, the benefits are obvious ...

Pinyin is arguably the easiest way of learning the pronunciations of characters. However, while it is mandatory for many students in Hong Kong to learn Hanyu Pinyin in Putonghua classes, Cantonese ...

Many claim that the surfeit of letters such as Q, X and Z makes it difficult to read Chinese names rendered in pinyin, but ...