📚 Pinyin, noun. 🔉 /ˌpɪnˈjɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The standard system of romanized spelling for transliterating Chinese. ❗️ Examples: 1. The transliteration used is the standard Pinyin as formally adopted by China in 1979. 2. Folk transcriptions of Chinese by English speakers tend to be like Pinyin in this respect. 3. The use of Pinyin poses problems of distinguishing homographs, as in the 24 etymologically unrelated forms spelt lian. 4. As far as I know, President Chen Shui-bian supports Hanyu Pinyin. 5. A good example is the word ‘gold’ which is ‘kim’ in Korean, ‘kin’ in Taiwanese-Hokkien and ‘jin’ in Pinyin. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic