While it is mandatory for many students in Hong Kong to learn Hanyu Pinyin in Putonghua classes, Cantonese Pinyin is rarely used to learn pronunciations of Traditional Chinese.

One country, two systems The coexistence of pinyin and Chinese characters highlights the role of emotion in language decisions ...

Generation Y Chinese Singaporeans’ names comprise a combination of dialect and Hanyu Pinyin pronunciations. The surname invariably follows the dialect pronunciation, while the given name follows ...

Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write In 1958, a brand new writing system was introduced in China by a professor called Zhou Youguang.

Mr Zhou and a Communist party committee spent three years developing the Pinyin system in the 1950s. It changed the way the language was taught and helped raise literacy rates.

Faced with technological and political upheaval, reformers decided that Chinese would need to change in order to survive.

By downloading the Google Pinyin IME application from the Android Market and enabling it through the "Language & Keyboard Settings" menu, your phone will gain the ability to input Chinese ...