You might recognise pinyin from your textbooks; they are the annotations above each Chinese character. The Hanyu Pinyin system has helped billions of people learn to read, write and speak Chinese.

Pinyin is arguably the easiest way of learning the pronunciations of characters. However, while it is mandatory for many students in Hong Kong to learn Hanyu Pinyin in Putonghua classes ...

While two of them - the snooker player and Dr Wang in Beijing - share the same Chinese characters, more than a thousand Chinese name combinations could be created from this Hanyu pinyin ...

In recent years, the SAR has devised a number of five-year plans and blueprints charting the development of a wide range of ...

Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their learners. They took the letters of the Roman alphabet, the same we use for ...

Hanyu is feted by more than 90,000 people at a celebratory parade in April, 2014. Struggles and setbacks No sooner had Hanyu achieved Olympic glory than he was beset by a series of injuries.