While it is mandatory for many students in Hong Kong to learn Hanyu Pinyin in Putonghua classes, Cantonese Pinyin is rarely used to learn pronunciations of Traditional Chinese.

Learn all about pinyin in Mandarin with this fun animation and interactive quiz from BBC Bitesize for KS2 Mandarin students aged 7 to 11.

Most people have probably never heard of 111-year-old linguist Zhou Youguang. But if you’re learning Chinese, you’ve seen his work.

Kevin K. H. Chung, Effects of Pinyin and First Language Words in Learning of Chinese Characters as a Second Language, Journal of Behavioral Education, Vol. 12, No. 3 (September 2003), pp. 207-223 ...

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 Mandarin, died ...

Pinyin has since become the most commonly used system globally, although some Chinese communities - particularly in Hong Kong and Taiwan - continue to use alternatives.