Pinyin

See also: pinyin and pīnyīn

English

Etymology 1

From Mandarin Chinese 拼音 (pīnyīn)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪnjɪn/

Alternative forms

• pinyin

Proper noun

Pinyin

1. A system of romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration to roman script) for Mandarin Chinese based on the Mandarin dialect of the Beijing area used in the People’s Republic of China.

Usage notes

While Pinyin uses the Latin alphabet, it should be kept in mind that it represents the sounds of Mandarin, not of English or any other language. Other than to express tonality, the only letter with diacritics that is used is “ü”. It uses four different diacritics on vowels to represent tones: ā, á, ǎ, à. Some have used numbers to represent the tones, but this is no longer as necessary as it used to be, because many software tools have become available for typing Pinyin with diacritical tone marks, as preferred by the Pinyin standard.

Synonyms

• Hanyu Pinyin
• Romanized Chinese

Translations

romanization of Mandarin Chinese

• Arabic: بينين‏‎ m (binyīn), بينين‏‎ m (pinyīn)
• Armenian: փինյին (pʿinyin)
• Belarusian: піньі́нь m (pinʹínʹ)
• Bulgarian: пини́н m (pinín)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 拼音 (ping³ jam¹), 漢語拼音, 汉语拼音 (hon³ jyu⁵ ping³ jam¹) (full name)

  Mandarin: 拼音 (zh) (pīnyīn), (full name) 漢語拼音 (zh), 汉语拼音 (zh) (hànyǔ pīnyīn)

• Esperanto: pinjino (eo)
• Finnish: pinyin
• French: pinyin (fr) m
• Georgian: პინ-ინი (ṗin-ini)
• German: Pinyin (de) n
• Hebrew: פין-יין‏‎ m (pin-yin)
• Hindi: पिन्यिन (pin'yin)
• Hungarian: pinjin (hu)
• Japanese: ピンイン (ja) (pin'in), 拼音 (ぴんいん, pin'in), ピン音 (pin'in), 併音 (ぴんいん, pin'in)
• Kazakh: пінін (pinin)
• Korean: 병음 (byeong-eum) (拼音 (ko))

• Latvian: piņjiņs m
• Macedonian: пи́нјин (mk) m (pínjin)
• Marathi: फीनयीन (phīnayīna)
• Mongolian: пинь-инь (pinʹ-inʹ)
• Persian: پین‌یین‏‎ (pinyin)
• Portuguese: pinyin (pt) m
• Romanian: pinyin n
• Russian: пиньи́нь (ru) m (pinʹínʹ), ханью́й пиньи́нь m (xanʹjúj pinʹínʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пинјин m

  Roman: pinjin m, pinyin m

• Spanish: pinyin m
• Thai: พินอิน (th) (pin-in)
• Ukrainian: піньї́нь m (pinʹjínʹ)
• Uyghur: پىنيىن‏‎ (pinyin)
• Vietnamese: bính âm (拼音)
• Zhuang: bingq

See also

• Gwoyeu Romatzyh
• romaji
• Wade-Giles
• Yale
• Zhuyin fuhao
• Index:Chinese Pinyin

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Pinyin

1. A Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Pinyin terms

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Pinyin, pny

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Spanish

Proper noun

Pinyin m

1. Pinyin