{"id":1765,"date":"2008-11-17T23:19:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T15:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2015-12-16T14:52:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T06:52:51","slug":"writing-four-syllable-idioms-in-pinyin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2008\/writing-four-syllable-idioms-in-pinyin\/","title":{"rendered":"writing four-syllable idioms in Pinyin"},"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;\" \/>The latest excerpt from Yin Binyong&#8217;s book on Pinyin orthography covers <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/yin_binyong\/o10_1_4_syllable_idioms.pdf\">how to write four-syllable idioms in Hanyu Pinyin<\/a> (929 KB PDF). Here&#8217;s a key passage: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>almost all four-character idioms can be broken in two halves, called y&#468;ji&#233; &#35821;&#33410; (language segments), on the basis of phonetic structure. The simple expedient of connecting the two y&#468;ji&#233; with a hyphen then provides idioms with their own distinctive written form, and assures ease of writing and reading. It is also a simple rule for students of HP to master. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But not all four-syllable idioms follow this rule, as the reading shows. <\/p>\n<p>This is a worthwhile reading for Mandarin learners, even if you&#8217;re not particularly interested in Pinyin. There are many examples of idioms here, all given in Hanzi, Pinyin, and English. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest excerpt from Yin Binyong&#8217;s book on Pinyin orthography covers how to write four-syllable idioms in Hanyu Pinyin (929 KB PDF). Here&#8217;s a key passage: almost all four-character idioms can be broken in two halves, called y&#468;ji&#233; &#35821;&#33410; (language &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2008\/writing-four-syllable-idioms-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":[104,12,46,106,95,55,32,20,600,19,107,31],"tags":[613],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet","category-chinese","category-classical-chinese","category-hanyu","category-linguistics","category-literacy","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-pinyin-rules","category-romanization","category-teach-chinese","category-writing-systems","tag-chengyu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","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=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7027,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/7027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}