| 汉语拼音 |
Hàn yǔ Pīn yīn |
Hanyu Pinyin, the romanization system used in the PRC since the 1960s |
| 汉 |
Hàn |
Han ethnic group / Chinese (language) / the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) |
| 汉 |
hàn |
man |
| 汉语 |
Hàn yǔ |
Chinese language |
| 语 |
yǔ |
dialect / language / speech |
| 语 |
yù |
(literary) to tell; to let (sb) know |
| 拼 |
pīn |
to piece together; to put together / to pool (resources etc); to share / to risk all; to go all out / to spell (words) |
| 拼音 |
pīn yīn |
phonetic writing / pinyin (Chinese romanization) |
| 音 |
yīn |
sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character) |