{"id":43882,"date":"2014-03-19T12:50:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T20:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/?p=43882"},"modified":"2014-03-19T12:50:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T20:50:30","slug":"chinese-alphabets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/chinese-alphabets\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Alphabets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, when we talk about Chinese alphabets, we mean the official Chinese romanization system Pinyin or Hanyu Pinyin <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E6%B1%89%E8%AF%AD%E6%8B%BC%E9%9F%B3%E3%80%82\">\u6c49\u8bed\u62fc\u97f3\u3002<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In history, people have used four major kinds of Chinese alphabetic transcription<br \/>\nYale romanization of Mandarin<br \/>\nWade-Giles<br \/>\nRomanization of Chinese in Taiwan &#8211; <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E9%80%9A%E7%94%A8%E6%8B%BC%E9%9F%B3\">\u901a\u7528\u62fc\u97f3<\/a> ( They tried to be different from Hanyu Pinyin used in Mainland China)for some political reasons)<br \/>\nHanyu Pinyin <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E6%B1%89%E8%AF%AD%E6%8B%BC%E9%9F%B3\">\u6c49\u8bed\u62fc\u97f3<\/a> or just Pinyin which is the modern international standard for standard Chinese transcription.<\/p>\n<p>So if you learned Pinyin, and someone asks you if you know Chinese alphabets, you would say &#8220;Of course&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get started to learn some basic Pinyin <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E6%8B%BC%E9%9F%B3\">\u62fc\u97f3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5-rK2e58QuY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, when we talk about Chinese alphabets, we mean the official Chinese romanization system Pinyin or Hanyu Pinyin <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E6%B1%89%E8%AF%AD%E6%8B%BC%E9%9F%B3%E3%80%82\">\u6c49\u8bed\u62fc\u97f3\u3002<\/a> In history, people have used four major kinds of Chinese alphabetic transcription Yale romanization of Mandarin Wade-Giles Romanization of Chinese in Taiwan &#8211; <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E9%80%9A%E7%94%A8%E6%8B%BC%E9%9F%B3\">\u901a\u7528\u62fc\u97f3<\/a> ( They tried to be different from Hanyu Pinyin used in Mainland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43883,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43882\/revisions\/43883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}