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pinyin
[ pin-yin ]
noun
, (sometimes initial capital letter)
- 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.
Pinyin
/ ˈpɪnˈjɪn /
noun
- a system of romanized spelling developed in China in 1958: used to transliterate Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pinyin1
First recorded in 1960–65; Chinese (Mandarin) pīnyīn literally “phonetic spelling,” equivalent to pīn “arrange, classify” + yīn “sound, pronunciation”
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