Hanyu pinyin ["Chinese language spell sound"]
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)
is the most commonly used system for Chinese romanization, i.e.
writing Chinese on the Roman alphabet (a, b, c ...). This
transliterating system was introduced in 1958 and officially
adopted in 1979 by the People's Republic of China. Pinyin is
not recognized in Taiwan.
Unfortunately some special diacritic characters, not found in
all commonly used western character sets, are needed to properly
romanize Chinese with Pinyin system. These pages try to introduce
suitable character sets and to list where those difficult
characters are located.
For the web page publishers there is a separate document
which tries to explain how the employed character set should be
indicated. Some
browser setup
tips to view Pinyin are also available.
