Sabatino de Ursis
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Sabatino de Ursis was an Italian Jesuit who was active in 17th-century China, during the Jesuit China missions.
The 1612 book in Chinese on Western hydraulics, by Sabatino de Ursis. It describes a traditional European force pump.
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