You might recognise pinyin from your textbooks; they are the annotations above each Chinese character. The Hanyu Pinyin system has helped billions of people learn to read, write and speak Chinese.

“They don’t have to rely on Pinyin to express themselves,” says Poon, “since Hongkongers learn how to pronounce Traditional Chinese characters from the media as well as through their daily ...

When romanized, his name may seem straightforward, but it actually represents multiple Chinese characters with the same Pinyin spelling, "wei." This overlap makes it difficult to know which ...

Mandarin is taught in schools using pinyin, a romanised, phonetic system of writing Chinese. There’s a brief introduction to how Chinese characters are formed and how calligraphy is still ...