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Chinese Pinyin Bible / Hán Yu Pin Yin Shéng Jing / Black bonded leather / Musheng Publishing Limited 2017 / Single Column text

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Chinese Pinyin Bible / Hán Yu Pin Yin Shéng Jing / Black bonded leather / Musheng Publishing Limited 2017 / Single Column text / 汉语拼音圣经

Bonded leather 2017

ISBN-10: 988164318X

ISBN: 9789881643186 / 978-9881643186

PAGES: 2268

PUBLISHER: Musheng Publishing

LANGUAGE: Chinese Simplified / Romanized (Pinyin)

 

English Description:

 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 Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan. It is often used to teach Standard Mandarin Chinese, which is normally written using Chinese characters. The system includes four diacritics denoting tones. Pinyin without tone marks is used to spell Chinese names and words in languages written with the Latin alphabet and also in certain computer input methods to enter Chinese characters.

The pinyin system was developed in the 1950s by many linguists, including Zhou Youguang, based on earlier forms of romanizations of Chinese. It was published by the Chinese government in 1958 and revised several times. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) adopted pinyin as an international standard in 1982, and was followed by the United Nations in 1986. Attempts to make pinyin standard in Taiwan occurred in 2002 and 2009, but "Today Taiwan has no standardized spelling system" so that in 2019 "alphabetic spellings in Taiwan are marked more by a lack of system than the presence of one." Moreover, "some cities, businesses, and organizations, notably in the south of Taiwan, did not accept [efforts to introduce pinyin], as it suggested that Taiwan is more closely tied to the PRC", so it remains one of several rival romanization systems in use.

The word Hànyǔ (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語) means 'the spoken language of the Han people', while Pīnyīn (拼音) literally means 'spelled sounds'

 

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