Pinyin is now used to teach Chinese around the world Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang, who created the writing system that turns Chinese characters into words using letters from the Roman alphabet, has ...

Zhou Youguang, a onetime Wall Street banker from China who developed Pinyin, a Romanized writing system that has helped more than 1 billion Chinese and countless foreigners learn to read and write ...

Reporting from beijingReporting from beijing — Zhou Youguang, a linguist considered the father of modern China’s Pinyin Romanization writing system, died Saturday at the age of 111. Born in 1906 ...

Zhou Youguang, a linguist considered the father of pinyin, a system of Latin letters for reading and writing standard Chinese, died on Saturday at his home in Beijing at age 111, one day after his ...

I’m trying to write Pinyin (versus inputting Chinese in Pinyin), and I’m running into an annoying issue with the hardware keyboard. There’s no way to write a character with an overbar short of ...

Reporting from beijing — Zhou Youguang, a linguist considered the father of modern China’s Pinyin Romanization writing system, died Saturday at the age of 111. Born in 1906 during China’s last ...

Zhou Youguang, a linguist considered the father of pinyin, a system of Latin letters for reading and writing standard Chinese, died on Jan 14 at his home in Beijing at the age of 111, one day after ...

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Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang, who created the writing system that turns Chinese characters into words using letters from the Roman alphabet, has died aged 111. Mr Zhou and a Communist party ...