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Pin·yin (pin′yin′)

noun

system for transliterating Chinese ideograms into the Latin alphabet, adopted by the People's Republic of China in 1979

Etymology: Chin pinyin, lit., phonetic sound

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Are there phonetic rules that apply to the symbols in pinyin?

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