pinyin

See also: Pinyin and pīnyīn

English

Proper noun

pinyin (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of Pinyin.

Noun

pinyin (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of Pinyin.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:pinyin.

Czech

Alternative forms

• pinjin, pchin-jin

Etymology

Derived from Mandarin 拼音 (pīnyīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɪnjɪn]
• Hyphenation: pin‧yin

Noun

pinyin m inan

1. Pinyin (romanisation standard for Mandarin Chinese)

Declension

Declension of pinyin (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	pinyin	pinyiny
genitive	pinyinu	pinyinů
dative	pinyinu	pinyinům
accusative	pinyin	pinyiny
vocative	pinyine	pinyiny
locative	pinyinu	pinyinech
instrumental	pinyinem	pinyiny

Further reading

• “pinyin”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

French

Etymology

Derived from Mandarin 拼音 (pīnyīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.njin/
• Hyphenation: pin‧yin

Noun

pinyin m (uncountable)

1. Pinyin (romanisation standard for Mandarin Chinese)

Polish

pinyin

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Pinyin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpin.jin/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -injin
• Syllabification: pin‧yin

Noun

pinyin m inan

1. Pinyin, Hanyu Pinyin (system of romanization for Standard Mandarin, used in the People's Republic of China, and more recently in other Mandarin Chinese-speaking areas as well)

   Synonym: hanyu pinyin

Declension

Declension of pinyin

	singular
nominative	pinyin
genitive	pinyinu
dative	pinyinowi
accusative	pinyin
instrumental	pinyinem
locative	pinyinie
vocative	pinyinie

Further reading

• pinyin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Derived from Mandarin 拼音 (pīnyīn).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /piˈnjĩ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /piˈnjin/

• Hyphenation: pin‧yin

Noun

pinyin m (uncountable)

1. Pinyin (romanisation standard for Mandarin Chinese)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Pinyin, derived from Mandarin 拼音 (pīnyīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpin.jin/
• Hyphenation: pin‧yin

Noun

pinyin n (uncountable)

1. Pinyin (romanisation standard for Mandarin Chinese)

See also

• plat (1st tone)
• crescând (2nd tone)
• scăzând-crescând (3rd tone)
• scăzând (4th tone)

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Mandarin 拼音 (pīnyīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpinjin]
• Hyphenation: pin‧yin

Noun

pinyin m inan

1. alternative form of pchin-jin

Declension

Declension of pinyin
(pattern dub)

	singular	plural
nominative	pinyin	pinyiny
genitive	pinyinu	pinyinov
dative	pinyinu	pinyinom
accusative	pinyin	pinyiny
locative	pinyine	pinyinoch
instrumental	pinyinom	pinyinmi

Further reading

• “pinyin”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Derived from Mandarin 拼音 (pīnyīn).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈpinʝin/ [ˈpĩɲ.ɟ͡ʝĩn]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpinʝin/ [ˈpĩɲ.ɟ͡ʝĩn] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /ˈpinʃin/ [ˈpĩnʲ.ʃĩn] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈpinʒin/ [ˈpĩnʲ.ʒĩn] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -inʝin
• Syllabification: pin‧yin

Noun

pinyin m (uncountable)

1. Pinyin (romanisation standard for Mandarin Chinese)