I’ve just added another long section of Yin Binyong’s book on the detailed rules for Hanyu Pinyin. This part (pp. 78-138) covers common nouns (2.4 MB PDF).

I should have mentioned earlier that this book isn’t useful just for those who want to know more about Pinyin. It can also serve as an excellent work for those learning Mandarin, since it tends to group like ideas together and gives many examples of how combinations form other words.

All that, and it’s absolutely free. So go ahead and download it now.

Here are the main divisions:

1. Introduction
2. Simple Nouns
3. Nouns with Prefixes
4. Nouns with Suffixes
5. Reduplicated Nouns
6. Nouns of Modifier-Modified Construction
7. Nouns of Coordinate Construction
8. Nouns of Verb-Object and Subject-Predicate Construction
9. Locational Nouns
10. Nouns of Time
11. Noun Phrases that Express a Single Concept