Pinyin
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The Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, commonly called Hanyu Pinyin or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. Hanyu literally means 'Han language' — that is, the Chinese l
A facade of a kindergarten in Zhengzhou, Henan, with writing using simplified characters and pinyin
A slogan written on a school wall featuring pinyin annotations without tonal marks or word grouping
Bopomofo
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Bopomofo, also called Zhuyin Fuhao, or simply Zhuyin, is a transliteration system for Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages. It is the principal method of teaching Mandarin pronunciation in Tai
Pinyin
…Hanyu Pinyin incorporated different aspects from existing systems, including Gwoyeu Romatzyh (1928), Latinxua Sin Wenz (1931), and the diacritics from bopomofo (1918). "I'm not the father of pinyin", Zhou said years later; "I'm the son of pinyin. It's [the result of] a long tradition from the later years of…
Table of Bopomofo, with romanization given in Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Bopomofo in Regular, Handwritten Regular & Cursive formats
An example of a Bopomofo keypad for Taiwan
A guide on how to typeset Bopomofo alongside characters. (1936, Li Jinxi)