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Introduction to Chinese alphabet (Pinyin)

Chinese phonetics is called Hanyu Pinyin in Chinese. It was approved in 1958 and adopted in 1979 by the Chinese government and superseded older Romanization systems such as Wade-Giles, Chinese Postal Map Romanization as well as Zhuyin, the method of Chinese phonetic instruction in China. Hanyu Pinyin was adopted in 1979 by the International Organization for Standardization (IOS), and Library of Congress of the U.S., the American Library Association as well as many other international institutions. It has also become a useful tool for entering Chinese language text computers.

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