noun
- Plural of pinyin; systems or instances of romanized spelling of Mandarin Chinese characters using the Latin alphabet.
Usage: Pinyin is the official romanization system for Mandarin Chinese adopted by the People's Republic of China.; Commonly used in education, linguistics, and technology for representing Chinese pronunciation.
Examples
- Students learning Mandarin often start by studying pinyins before learning to write characters.
- The textbook includes pinyins above each Chinese character to help beginners with pronunciation.
- Modern Chinese input methods on computers rely on pinyins to convert typed letters into characters.
- Teachers use pinyins to show the correct pronunciation of unfamiliar words.
- The dictionary provides pinyins alongside traditional and simplified character forms.