Pinyin
Tonally Orthographic Pinyin
By Confused Laowai on January 12, 2012
I found out this really cool way to write Pinyin while browsing the Chinese Stack Exchange (ps. which you guys must join!). It’s called Tonally Orthographic Pinyin. Its main aim is to make tone marks redundant. The creator said this: The TOP system is redundantly marked for tones: with colors, with capital and small letters, [...]
Oddities in Chinese: Hanyu Pinyin Syllables
By Confused Laowai on October 5, 2011
I’ve been learning Chinese for almost four years now (a few more months to go). I still discover interesting things about Mandarin everyday. I remember back in 1st year of Chinese, we went through the Pinyin chart of syllables, getting the grips of Chinese pronunciation. Syllable after syllable we went: bo, po, mo, fo etc [...]
Posted in Language | Tagged Chinese Romanization, Chinese Syllables, Hanyu Pinyin, Mandarin Syllables, Pinyin, Zhuyin | 13 Responses
