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 for Standard Mandarin, used in the People’s Republic of China, and more recently in other Chinese-speaking areas as well.

   Synonym: Hanyu Pinyin

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 (pinyin)
• Hungarian: pinjin (hu)
• Japanese: ピンイン (ja) (pin'in), 拼音 (ja) (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)), 핀인 (pinin)

• Latvian: piņjiņs m
• Macedonian: пи́нјин (mk) m (pínjin)
• Marathi: फीनयीन (phīnyīn)
• 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

Noun

Pinyin

1. A phonetic script or romanization system for a language spoken in the People's Republic of China.
   • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:Pinyin.

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