Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their learners. They took the letters of the Roman alphabet, the same we use for ...

Mandarin Chinese is the most common language in the ... a.k.a. writing Chinese words with the Roman alphabet. For example, the word for hello, 你好, would be written “nǐ hǎo.” ...

In academic research, identifying authorship is a unique challenge for Chinese researchers when their names are presented solely in pinyin and might be shared by other researchers whose names are ...