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What does it mean in Chinese?

What does 拼音 mean?

猫头鹰māotóuyīngowl

拼音 pīnyīn

pinyin (romanization of Chinese)

It can also mean

  • phonetic spelling

Its characters

  1. 拼 pīn to spell (as in 拼音, 拼写)
  2. 音 yīn sound

In a sentence

孩子们先学拼音再学汉字。 Children learn pinyin first, then Chinese characters.

每个学中文的人,第一天学的往往不是汉字,而是拼音:b、p、m、f,还有那四个小小的声调符号。

From 拼音是谁发明的? · Who invented pinyin? The story of Zhou Youguang

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