Du Chinese allows you to read through different Chinese stories, with the difficulty level ranging from beginner to advanced. The app's best feature is that tapping on a word reveals the pinyin ...

(Updated) My hatred for pinyin, the convention for rendering Chinese words in Western script, is undiminished. But a little while ago I used the wrong example to make the point. As readers Jake ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their ...

Singaporean Chinese names have been shaped by policy, cultural shifts and evolving notions of identity. Read more at ...

OS X has a nice pinyin input system for Simplified Chinese. However, the pinyin input system for Traditional Chinese is really really bad. So in 10.3 ...

Dialect names have an enduring appeal for Chinese Singaporeans, despite the Speak Mandarin campaign. Read more at ...

Pinyin helped to rapidly increase literacy levels in China. When it was introduced, 80% of the population couldn't read or write. It's now only a couple of percent.

Zhou Youguang (漢語拼音之父周有光) is the scholar who invented pinyin, a system of romanisation for Chinese characters Since 1958, Chinese primary school students have learnt pinyin, before they learn ...