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Pinyin

Pin·yin [ pìn yín ] or pin·yin [ pìn yín ]


noun 
Definition:
 
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

[Mid-20th century. < Chinese pīnyīn, literally "spell sound"]
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