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nciku Chinese characters and pinyin dictionary →

So many features. Handwritten character recognition, audio in both a male and female voice, phrases suggested and rated by users. Hard-to-remember name, though.

tags: Chinese, Mandarin, Pinyin | # | comment Jul. 11th, 2008

Hanyu Pinyin celebrates its 50th birthday →

I found it coherent and useful when learning Mandarin, says the white guy who only knew English and French beforehand.

tags: Chinese, Mandarin, Pinyin, via:countablyinfinite | # | comment Feb. 11th, 2008

Taiwan’s MPS2 romanization system is not the same as Yale →

tags: China, Chinese, MPS2, Mandarin, Pinyin, Taiwan, romanization | # | comment Nov. 14th, 2006

What does a Chinese keyboard look like? →

Pinyin and Wubi, basically. I use pinyin when I need to type out Chinese characters.

tags: Chinese, Mandarin, Pinyin, wubi | # | comment Feb. 22nd, 2006

Chinese in Firefly, with Pinyin and translations →

Until now I didn't have a reason to watch the show.

tags: Chinese, Pinyin, firefly | # | comment Apr. 29th, 2005

"bu po bu li" at oneaday.org →

Includes the proper Mandarin tones (all fourth tone) for each character.

tags: Chinese, Mandarin, Pinyin, bupobuli | # | comment Apr. 1st, 2005

Where I got the translation for "bu po bu li" from →

FYI.

tags: Chinese, Mandarin, Pinyin, bupobuli | # | comment Mar. 31st, 2005

The Paper Tiger on the banned-in-China novel "Serve the People" →

The Chinese in the title is pronounced "bu po bu li" and means something like "without breaking down, one cannot build up" (or "creative destruction" in capitalist terms).

tags: China, Chinese, Mandarin, Mao, Pinyin, bupobuli | # | comment Mar. 31st, 2005

newsinchinese.com is a WordPress-powered site that pulls in Xinhua news and annotates the characters with Pinyin and English →

tags: Chinese, Mandarin, Pinyin, WordPress, xinhua | # | 2 comments Feb. 16th, 2005

Pinyin News is a weblog about pinyin and other romanization schemes for Chinese →

tags: Chinese, Mandarin, Pinyin, romanization | # | comment Jan. 14th, 2005

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