Pinyin (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun (sometimes initial capital letter)
  1. 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.
noun
  1. a system of romanized spelling developed in China in 1958: used to transliterate Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet
Pinyin (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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