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pinyin
[ pin-yin ]
noun
- a system for transliterating Chinese into the Latin alphabet: introduced in 1958 and adopted as the official system of romanization by the People's Republic of China in 1979.
Pinyin
/ ˈɪˈɪ /
noun
- a system of romanized spelling developed in China in 1958: used to transliterate Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of pinyin1
Example Sentences
In an experiment with 35 native English-speaking adults, researchers tracked the brain activity of participants learning a miniature language called Mini Pinyin that is based on Mandarin but with similar grammatical rules to English.
Half of the participants learned Mini Pinyin in the morning and then returned in the evening to have their memory tested.
The other half learned Mini Pinyin in the evening and then slept in the laboratory overnight while their brain activity was recorded.
The city’s name is now spelled Nanjing under the pinyin romanization system.
But he said the attacks had connections to China including cryptography relying on Pinyin phonetic versions of Chinese language characters, as well as techniques that echoed previous attacks by the Chinese government.
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