Pinyin

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Pinyin, formally Hanyu Pinyin, is the offeecial phonetic seestem for transcribin the Mandarin pronunciations o Cheenese characters intae the Laitin alphabet in Cheenae, Taiwan,[1] an Singapore. It is aften uised tae teach Staundart Cheenese an spell Cheenese names in foreign publications an mey be uised as an input method tae enter Cheenese characters intae computers.

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  1. Snowling, Margaret J.; Hulme, Charles (2005). The science of reading: a handbook. Blackwell handbooks of developmental psychology). 17. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 320–22. ISBN 1-4051-1488-6.