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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])
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)
拼音 pīn yīn phonetic writing / pinyin (Chinese romanization)
汉拼 Hàn pīn Hanyu Pinyin (abbr. for 漢語拼音|汉语拼音[Han4 yu3 Pin1 yin1])
汉语拼音 Hàn Pīn yīn Hanyu Pinyin, the romanization system used in the PRC since the 1960s
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]
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)
全拼 quán pīn (computing) full pinyin (input method where the user types pinyin without tones, e.g. "shiqing" for 事情[shi4 qing5])
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])


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