Questions tagged [pinyin]
Questions about the official transcription writing system that is used to write the reading of chinese characters using the roman alphabet.
194
questions
3
votes
1
answer
140
views
What is a good Chinese Grammar book?
What is a good, comprehensive , learner friendly Chinese Grammar book, with explanations in English or German and Chinese, which also does teach phonetics and the Pinyin spelling rules?
With good and ...
- 293
0
votes
1
answer
143
views
What is the historical development of IPA for Chinese spoken language?
** This question is NOT for CSL students. The best way to learn a language is to directly follow a native speaker. A Chinese language teacher with the same native language background as the CSL ...
- 4,385
7
votes
3
answers
2k
views
Why did so many Ks change into Js and Qs?
When looking at the history of name changes, one of the most common changes to city names seems to be the replacement of K with J and Q. For example, the spelling "Peking" has been changed ...
- 231
1
vote
1
answer
97
views
How to translate "开口呼、齐齿呼、合口呼、撮口呼" to English?
How to translate "开口呼、齐齿呼、合口呼、撮口呼" to English?
开口呼、齐齿呼、合口呼、撮口呼 (四呼) are concepts of Chinese pronouonciation.
开口呼 - There is no glide before the nucleus vowel, such as "Ma4Ma4" (妈妈)....
- 4,385
0
votes
0
answers
38
views
How to compare the syllable structures of Chinese with Hangul?
How to compare the syllable structures (or pronunciations) of Chinese (Standard or Pu3Tong1Hua4) with Hangul (Korea Language)?
In this article here, it says, "The number of the theoretically ...
- 4,385
0
votes
3
answers
311
views
How do you understand her name "Bi-khim Hsiao"?
Her name in Chinese is "萧美琴" and in English is "Bi-khim Hsiao". How do you understand the translation?
- 4,385
5
votes
3
answers
327
views
Is the Pinyin made for some Chinese characters in double standard?
The most striking cases are:
莫 (mo), 我(wo), 坡(po),波(bo),
but
国(guo), 洛(luo), 错(cuo), etc, with one "u" added, which is unnecessary.
To my ears, they are the same, aren't they?
- 2,859
0
votes
0
answers
85
views
Why Pinyin's "声母" and "韵母" were translated as "initials" and "finals"?
Why Pinyin's "声母" and "韵母" were translated as "Initials" and "Finals", but not as "sound-mother" and "rime-mother"? What is the meaning of &...
- 4,385
2
votes
4
answers
314
views
What "字母" mean in Chinese (not Alphabet in English)? Why is it called "character-mother"?
The word "字母" might have been first used by SHOU WEN of the TANG dynasty. Why is it called "character-mother"? And now people translate "Alphabet letters" as "字母&...
- 4,385
0
votes
1
answer
133
views
How to properly map pinyin to Chinese text in a sentence?
I am working on displaying Chinese texts like CText does, but I wanted to have a version of each text which displays the pinyin next to it.
My question is, how do you properly represent Chinese "...
- 1,258
1
vote
1
answer
147
views
How to get Google Contacts to use Hanyu Pinyin or Zhuyin fuhao sort order on desktop?
We observe an Android user figured out how to make Google Contacts sort his Chinese surnamed contacts in Hanyu Pinyin order. How to do the same thing, on desktop? Yes, I want to keep my main language ...
- 113
1
vote
1
answer
288
views
Python function for splitting pinyin into syllables
The question
I'd like to have a function in Python for splitting a given string containing pinyin into its syllables. The following two code blocks show how the function is intended to work.
Input
...
- 255
1
vote
3
answers
175
views
Is there statistics on the frequency of individual pinyin syllables in real texts?
I'm interested in the frequency of pinyin syllables (both when including tones and toneless). This implies the usage in real text, weighted by the occurrences in the corpus, not by parsing a ...
- 1,031
0
votes
2
answers
171
views
How can I install Shuangpin in Rime for Traditional Characters only?
I am on a Windows 10 PC.
I have installed the Zhengma method on RIME and have been using it for the past few months.
But I want to try practicing with Shuangpin (aka Double Pinyin) since its easier on ...
1
vote
1
answer
410
views
Ibus-pinyin seems not a good Chinese inputting system for Chinese learners. How do you usually input Chinese using keyboard without android or iphone?
Since my reputation points are insufficient, I guess that I can't paste an image in this post. So I describe what I want to tell you using texts only.
I've been using ibus-pinyin in Ubuntu 22.04 to ...
- 626