You might recognise pinyin from your textbooks; they are the annotations above each Chinese character. The Hanyu Pinyin system has helped billions of people learn to read, write and speak Chinese.

To spell out this passage using Hanyu pinyin, mainland China's official system of transliterating Chinese characters into Latin alphabetic letters, one needs a total of 17 letters and spaces ...

While both Hanyu Pinyin and Cantonese Pinyin are romanised ... “since Hongkongers learn how to pronounce Traditional Chinese characters from the media as well as through their daily ...