Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their learners. They took the letters of the Roman alphabet, the same we use for ...

pinyin was developed by Chinese linguists as an official romanization system for the pronunciation of Mandarin. It renders Chinese characters in the letters of the Roman alphabet, enabling anyone ...

Journalist, blogger, podcaster and author Qin Xie previously explained for Metro : ‘Happy Chinese New Year is xin nian (new ...