{"id":307,"date":"2006-02-16T20:03:43","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T12:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/apostrophes-in-hanyu-pinyin\/"},"modified":"2008-09-20T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T08:44:34","slug":"apostrophes-in-hanyu-pinyin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/apostrophes-in-hanyu-pinyin\/","title":{"rendered":"apostrophes in Hanyu Pinyin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To help answer questions raised by <a href=\"\/news\/2006\/mistakes-in-taipeis-mrt-system\/\">earlier posts<\/a>, I&#8217;ve added a page to my site on <a href=\"\/romanization\/hanyu\/apostrophes.html\">apostrophes in Hanyu Pinyin<\/a>. It begins with the basics. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s all you really need to know about when and where to place apostrophes when writing Mandarin Chinese in Hanyu Pinyin:<\/p>\n<p>Put an apostrophe before any syllable that begins with <em>a<\/em>, <em>e<\/em>, or <em>o<\/em>, unless that syllable comes at the beginning of a word or immediately follows a hyphen or other dash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please note there is no &#8220;if there is ambiguity&#8221; in the rule above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help answer questions raised by earlier posts, I&#8217;ve added a page to my site on apostrophes in Hanyu Pinyin. It begins with the basics. Here&#8217;s all you really need to know about when and where to place apostrophes when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/apostrophes-in-hanyu-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":[20,600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinyin","category-pinyin-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","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=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}