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| Pin·yin [ pìn yín ] or pin·yin [ pìn yín ] |
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transliterating system for Chinese: a system for transliterating written Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet, introduced in 1959 and adopted by the People's Republic of China in 1979
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| [Mid-20th century. < Chinese pīnyīn, literally "spell sound"] |
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