Pinyin
/pɪnˈjɪn
/noun [mass noun]
The standard system of romanized spelling for transliterating Chinese.The transliteration used is the standard Pinyin as formally adopted by China in 1979....
- Folk transcriptions of Chinese by English speakers tend to be like Pinyin in this respect.
- The use of Pinyin poses problems of distinguishing homographs, as in the 24 etymologically unrelated forms spelt lian.
Origin
1960s: from Chinese pīn-yīn, literally 'spell-sound'.
Rhymes
- digital TV
- digital video disc
- digital video disk
- digital video recorder
- digital watermark
- digital watermarking
- digitary
- digitate
- digitated
- digitation
- digited
- digitiform
- digitigrade
- digitigradism
- digitin
- digitinerved
- digitinervous
- digitisation
- digitise
- digitization
- digitize
- digitizer
- digitogenin
- digitonin
- digitorium