{"id":1388,"date":"2008-09-20T15:47:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T07:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2015-12-17T13:10:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T05:10:16","slug":"detailed-rules-for-hanyu-pinyin-a-major-addition-to-pinyininfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2008\/detailed-rules-for-hanyu-pinyin-a-major-addition-to-pinyininfo\/","title":{"rendered":"detailed rules for Hanyu Pinyin: a major addition to Pinyin.Info"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"cover<\/a>For several years I’ve had online the brief official principles for writing Hanyu Pinyin<\/a>. But those go only so far. Fortunately, Yin Binyong (Yǐn Bīnyōng<\/span> \/ 尹斌庸) (1930-2003), who was involved in work on Hanyu Pinyin from the beginning, wrote two books on the subject, producing a detailed, logical, and effective orthography for Pinyin.<\/p>\n

The only one of those two books with English explanations as well as Mandarin, Chinese Romanization: Pronunciation and Orthography<\/em><\/a> (Mandarin title: Hànyǔ Pīnyīn hé Zhèngcífǎ<\/span> \/ 汉语拼音和正词法 \/ 漢語拼音和正詞法), has gone out of print; and at present there are no plans to bring it back into print. Fortunately, however, I was eventually able to secure the rights to reproduce this work on Pinyin.Info. Yes, the entire book<\/em>. So everybody be sure to say thank you to the generous publisher by buying Sinolingua’s books<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This book, which is nearly 600 pages long, is a mother lode of information. It would be difficult for me to overstate its importance. Over the next few months I’ll be releasing the work in sections. I had intended to delay this a little, as I have had to wait for a fancy new scanner and am still awaiting some OCR software that can handle Hanzi as well as the Roman alphabet. (This Web site is an expensive hobby!) But since Taiwan has recently adopted Hanyu Pinyin I will be releasing some material soon (without OCR, for the time being) in the hope of helping Taiwan avoid making mistakes in its implementation of an orthography for Pinyin here. <\/p>\n

Watch this blog for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For several years I’ve had online the brief official principles for writing Hanyu Pinyin. But those go only so far. Fortunately, Yin Binyong (Yǐn Bīnyōng \/ 尹斌庸) (1930-2003), who was involved in work on Hanyu Pinyin from the beginning, wrote … Continue reading →<\/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":[4,12,106,55,32,20,600,19,7],"tags":[271,518],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chinese","category-hanyu","category-literacy","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-pinyin-rules","category-romanization","category-site-news","tag-hanyu-pinyin","tag-yin-binyong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","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=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7043,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/7043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}