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[[File:Dajia-shuo-Putonghua-2817.jpg|thumb|Text in pinyin in Shanghai.]]
'''Pinyin''' is a way to write [[letter]]s showing the sound of a word in place of a [[Chinese character]]. Today, it almost always has the sense of '''Hanyu&nbsp;Pinyin''', the [[transliteration|way of writing]] [[Mandarin language|Mandarin]] sounds which has been used by the [[People's Republic of China]] from the 1950s. Other place like the [[United States]] and [[Taiwan]] used other [[romanization of Chinese|ways of spelling Chinese]] (such as [[Wade-Giles]] and [[Tongyong Pinyin]]) for a long time, but in the late 20th century, they started to use Hanyu&nbsp;Pinyin as well. It is the standard romanization system in China and in the [[United Nations]] and is the most common for Chinese.

Pinyin uses [[Roman letter]]s in a special way for certain Chinese sounds. For example, the pinyin letter [[C]] is pronounced as /ts/ as in the English word "ca'''ts'''" or the Japanese word "'''ts'''unami" and does not sound at all like /k/ or /s/ by itself. Pinyin uses [[diacritic|special marks]] to show the four Chinese [[Tone language|tones]], which are very important in speaking Mandarin correctly.

== Consonants ==
b p m f w

d t n l

g k ng h

j q x y

z c s

== Vowels ==
a e i o u ü

== Basic combinations of vowel and consonant ==
ai ei ao ou

an en ang eng  Tones ==
There are five [[tone language|tones]]:

ā, á, ǎ, à, a

== Syllable-dividing mark (''geyin fuhao'') ==
''Geyin fuhao'' is used after syllables that start with a, o, or e: pi'ao.

== Orthography ==
Pinyin should be divided text by words and write syllables connectedly. For example, "I am a foreigner" should be written as "Wo shi waiguoren" in pinyin. 

== Pinyin reading matters ==
*[[:wikibooks:Pinyin#Pinyin reading matters|Pinyin reading matters from Wikibooks]]
*[[:incubator:Category:Wp/cmn|Pinyin reading matters from Wikimedia]]

== Other websites ==
*[[wikibooks:Pinyin/Pronunciation#Pinyin_syllable_table|New Edition Hanyu Pinyin Syllable]] Table  
* [http://www.pinyin.info Rules for Hanyu Pinyin]
* [http://www.kanglin-software.com/ Convert Chinese to Pinyin]
* [http://www.kanglin-software.com/LittlePinApp/LittlePinyinApp.aspx Little Pinyin App 1.0 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090706084310/http://www.kanglin-software.com/LittlePinApp/LittlePinyinApp.aspx |date=2009-07-06 }}


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