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拼音 pīn yīn phonetic writing / pinyin (Chinese romanization)
双拼 shuāng pīn two-item combo (usu. referring to a food dish, esp. two types of meat served with rice or noodles) / (real estate) duplex; semi-detached / (computing) double pinyin (input method in which each syllable is typed using no more than two keystrokes: one for the initial consonant and one for the final)
汉语拼音 Hàn Pīn yīn Hanyu Pinyin, the romanization system used in the PRC since the 1960s
全拼 quán pīn (computing) full pinyin (input method where the user types pinyin without tones, e.g. "shiqing" for 事情[shi4 qing5])
标注 biāo zhù to mark out / to tag / to put a sign on sth explaining or calling attention to / to annotate (e.g. a character with its pinyin)
周有光 Zhōu Yǒu guāng Zhou Youguang (1906-2017), PRC linguist, considered the father of Hanyu Pinyin 漢語拼音|汉语拼音[Han4 yu3 Pin1 yin1]
隔音符号 yīn hào apostrophe, as used in pinyin orthography (i.e. to mark a boundary between two syllables, as in "dàng'àn" 檔案|档案[dang4 an4])
注音 zhù yīn to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters using Pinyin or Bopomofo etc / phonetic notation / (specifically) Bopomofo (abbr. for 注音符號|注音符号[zhu4 yin1 fu2 hao4])
汉拼 Hàn pīn Hanyu Pinyin (abbr. for 漢語拼音|汉语拼音[Han4 yu3 Pin1 yin1])


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