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 ...

Xiao Meili (simplified Chinese: 肖美丽; traditional Chinese: 肖美麗; pinyin: Xiào Měilì ... Xiao Meili shared the story of her 2,000km protest walk from Beijing to Guangzhou to raise ...

Chinese foreign ministry and state media articles have increased their use of pinyin for place names in the contested area It follows a growing number of flare-ups between Beijing and Manila ...