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'''Pinyin''', also known as Hanyu Pinyin, is the internationally recognised [[standard]] for [[romanising]] [[Mandarin Chinese]]. It was approved by the Chinese government in 1958 and adopted in 1979 as the basis for romanising all Chinese names and also for the teaching of Mandarin. It is used in all schools as a basic [[literacy]] tool upon which the learning of [[Chinese characters]] is based. It is also used by most universities outside [[China]], other than those in [[Taiwan]] as a basis for teaching Mandarin as a foreign language. It is also noteworthy that Taiwan has developed a variant of Hanyu Pinyin, known as [[Tongyong Pinyin]] to replace the [[Wade-Giles]] romanisation system that was previously used internationally, but is now only used in Taiwan.

'''Pinyin''', also known as Hanyu Pinyin, is the internationally recognised [[standard]] for [[romanising]] [[Mandarin Chinese]]. It was approved by the Chinese government in 1958 and adopted in 1979 as the basis for romanising all Chinese names and also for the teaching of Mandarin. It is used in all schools as a basic [[literacy]] tool upon which the learning of [[Chinese characters]] is based. It is also used by most universities outside [[China]], other than those in [[Taiwan]] as a basis for teaching Mandarin as a foreign language. It is also noteworthy that Taiwan has developed a variant of Hanyu Pinyin, known as [[Tongyong Pinyin]] to replace the [[Wade-Giles]] [[romanisation]] system that was previously used internationally, but is now only used in Taiwan.

== How Pinyin Works ==

== How Pinyin Works ==