{"id":117,"date":"2005-06-13T23:53:30","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T15:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=117"},"modified":"2005-09-19T11:31:54","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T03:31:54","slug":"mandarin-poprock-lyrics-in-pinyin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2005\/mandarin-poprock-lyrics-in-pinyin\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandarin pop\/rock lyrics in Pinyin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been adding the lyrics to some songs, including titles by <a href=\"\/songs\/cui_jian\/\">Cui Jian<\/a>, <a href=\"\/songs\/faye_wong\/\">Faye Wong<\/a>, <a href=\"\/songs\/wu_bai\/\">Wu Bai and China Blue<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/songs\/jay_chou\/\">Jay Chou<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t included Chinese characters. Keep in mind that songs are meant to be heard, not read. Also, tones generally disappear when words are sung. Thus, these songs should be considerably easier to understand when read in Pinyin transcriptions than when listened to alone. (It&#8217;s the same with other languages, too, of course.) If you find you&#8217;re having trouble, <i>li&#224;nx&#237;, li&#224;nx&#237;<\/i>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been adding the lyrics to some songs, including titles by Cui Jian, Faye Wong, Wu Bai and China Blue, and Jay Chou. I haven&#8217;t included Chinese characters. Keep in mind that songs are meant to be heard, not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2005\/mandarin-poprock-lyrics-in-pinyin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,8,32,20,19,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chinese","category-hong-kong","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-romanization","category-site-news","category-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}