Pinyin

See also: pinyin and pīnyīn

English

Etymology 1

From Mandarin Chinese 拼音 (pīnyīn, literally “spelled sounds”).

Alternative forms

pinyin
(from Wade-Giles) p'in-yin

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɪnjɪn/

Proper noun

Pinyin

A system of romanization for Standard Mandarin, used in the People’s Republic of China, and more recently in other Mandarin Chinese-speaking areas as well.
Synonym: Hanyu Pinyin

Translations

romanization of Mandarin Chinese

Arabic: بينين‎ m (binyīn), بينين‎ m (pinyīn)
Armenian: փինյին (pʿinyin)
Belarusian: піньі́нь m (pinʹínʹ)
Bulgarian: пини́н m (pinín)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 拼音 (ping³ jam¹), 漢語拼音, 汉语拼音 (hon³ jyu⁵ ping³ jam¹) (full name)

Mandarin: 拼音 (zh) (pīnyīn), (full name) 漢語拼音／汉语拼音 (zh) (hànyǔ pīnyīn)
Czech: pinyin m, pchin-jin m
Esperanto: pinjino (eo)
Finnish: pinyin
French: pinyin (fr) m
Georgian: პინ-ინი (ṗin-ini)
German: Pinyin (de) n
Hebrew: פין-יין‎ m (pin-yin)
Hindi: पिन्यिन (pinyin)
Hungarian: pinjin (hu)
Japanese: ピンイン (ja) (pin'in), 拼音 (ja) (ぴんいん, pin'in), ピン音 (pin'in), 併音 (ぴんいん, pin'in)
Kazakh: пінін (pının)
Korean: 병음(拼音) (byeong'eum), 핀인 (pinin)
Latvian: piņjiņs m
Macedonian: пи́нјин (mk) m (pínjin)
Marathi: फीनयीन (phīnyīn)
Mongolian: пинь-инь (pinʹ-inʹ)
Persian: پین‌یین‎ (pinyin)
Portuguese: pinyin (pt) m
Romanian: pinyin (ro) n
Russian: пиньи́нь (ru) m (pinʹínʹ), ханью́й пиньи́нь m (xanʹjúj pinʹínʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пинјин m

Roman: pinjin m, pinyin m
Spanish: pinyin m
Thai: พินอิน (th) (pin-in)
Ukrainian: піньї́нь m (pinʹjínʹ)
Uyghur: پىنيىن‎ (pinyin)
Vietnamese: bính âm (拼音)
Zhuang: ^{(please verify)} bingq, ^{(please verify)} gyoeb-yaem

Noun

Pinyin

A phonetic script or romanization system for various languages spoken in the People's Republic of China.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Pinyin.

See also

Further reading

Pinyin romanization in Encyclopædia Britannica including Pinyin to Wade-Giles conversions chart
“Pinyin, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“Pinyin”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Proper noun

Pinyin

A Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.

See also

Wiktionary’s coverage of Pinyin terms

Further reading

Ethnologue entry for Pinyin, pny ⁠

Spanish

Proper noun

Pinyin m

Pinyin

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