{"id":1434,"date":"2008-09-26T23:21:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2009-04-27T22:46:58","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T14:46:58","slug":"hanyu-pinyin-and-common-nouns-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2008\/hanyu-pinyin-and-common-nouns-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanyu Pinyin and common nouns: the rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/pronun-and-orth.gif\" alt=\"cover of Chinese Romanization: Pronunciation and Orthography\" style=\"float: right; width: 138px; height: 200px;\" \/>I&#8217;ve just added another long section of Yin Binyong&#8217;s book on the detailed rules for Hanyu Pinyin. This part (pp. 78-138) covers <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/yin_binyong\/o1_common_nouns.pdf\">common nouns<\/a> (2.4 MB PDF).<\/p>\n<p>I should have mentioned earlier that this book isn&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p>All that, and it&#8217;s absolutely <em>free<\/em>. So go ahead and download it now. <\/p>\n<p>Here are the main divisions: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>Simple Nouns<\/li>\n<li>Nouns with Prefixes<\/li>\n<li>Nouns with Suffixes<\/li>\n<li>Reduplicated Nouns<\/li>\n<li>Nouns of Modifier-Modified Construction<\/li>\n<li>Nouns of Coordinate Construction<\/li>\n<li>Nouns of Verb-Object and Subject-Predicate Construction<\/li>\n<li>Locational Nouns<\/li>\n<li>Nouns of Time<\/li>\n<li>Noun Phrases that Express a Single Concept<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just added another long section of Yin Binyong&#8217;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&#8217;t useful just for those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2008\/hanyu-pinyin-and-common-nouns-the-rules\/\">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":[4,12,15,106,28,95,32,20,600,19,107,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-hanyu","category-languages","category-linguistics","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-pinyin-rules","category-romanization","category-teach-chinese","category-writing-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","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=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}