Is pinyin real Chinese?

Hanyu Pinyin (simplified Chinese: 汉语拼音; traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; pinyin: hànyǔ pīnyīn), often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan and Singapore.

Do most Chinese people know pinyin?

A large majority of Chinese people in mainland China type using pinyin (though there ARE alternatives), so people can definitely understand it. However, as mentioned by other people, while you may type using the system, most Chinese people are not accustomed to reading pinyin.

What is pinyin in Chinese?

Pinyin is the Romanization of the Chinese characters based on their pronunciation. In Mandarin Chinese, the phrase “Pin Yin” literally translates into “spell sound.” In other words, spelling out Chinese phrases with letters from the English alphabet. For example: Characters: 学习中文

How would you describe Pinyin?

Pinyin is the special system, created for people to learn Mandarin pronunciation. Pinyin transcribes the Chinese characters so people can pronounce it. It may be used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into computers or electronics as well. The writing of Pinyin is similar to English alphabet.

What was used before pinyin?

French EFEO system. The system devised in 1902 by Séraphin Couvreur of the École française d’Extrême-Orient was used in most of the French-speaking world to transliterate Chinese until the middle of the 20th century, then gradually replaced by hanyu pinyin.

Who developed pinyin?

Zhou Youguang
Born when a Qing dynasty emperor was on the throne, he went on to help invent the Pinyin writing system used for transliterating the Chinese alphabet. Zhou Youguang, the inventor of a system to convert Chinese characters into words with the Roman alphabet, died Saturday at the age of 111.

Do I need to know pinyin?

As any learner of Chinese knows, learning pinyin (拼音, pīnyīn), a Romanized system of writing Chinese words, can be very useful in the learning process. There are many opinions about how it should be used, but most people would argue that for beginners (especially adult beginners), it is essential.

What do you know about pinyin?

What is pinyin and how do you use it?

To put it simply, pinyin is simply a Romanization of the Chinese characters based on their pronunciation, the translation for ‘pinyin’ basically means ‘to spell out/combine sounds’. For example, 你好, which you know as ‘hello’ in pinyin is Nǐhǎo, the number and ‘dash’ signifies one of the 4 tones.

Do Chinese children learn pinyin first?

1 @bytebuster – As far as I know, Chinese children learn pinyin first, and only then they start learning the characters, that’s why allthe literate Chinese already know pinyin. – Yellow Sky Dec 9 ’16 at 5:03 2 And of language. A lot of other Chinese languages use hanzi besides Putonghua; and you can’t write them in pinyin.

How many characters are there in Mandarin Chinese pinyin?

As a side note, each sound can have up to 60 different characters or meanings associated with it. Meaning learning the sounds is just the first step. There is a total of 21 initials in Mandarin Chinese Pinyin. For the most part, their sounds are similar to the sounds you would expect to hear in English.

How can I learn to read the Chinese Alphabet?

You can find tools online that will teach you how to read the alphabet the Chinese way. For example on Chinesepod where they will take you through the Chinese pinyin alphabet with sound clips so you can hear how it sounds.