{"id":4458,"date":"2011-06-26T23:33:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=4458"},"modified":"2018-08-28T14:34:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T06:34:26","slug":"important-book-on-pinyin-to-be-excerpted-on-this-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2011\/important-book-on-pinyin-to-be-excerpted-on-this-site\/","title":{"rendered":"important book on Pinyin to be excerpted on this site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2011\/06\/xinhua_pinxie_cidian_100w.gif\" alt=\"cover image for the book\" title=\"xinhua_pinxie_cidian_100w\" style=\"float: right; width: 100px; height: 142px;\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4525\" \/><em>X&#299;nhu&#225; P&#299;nxi&#283; C&#237;di&#462;n<\/em> (&#12298;&#26032;&#21326;&#25340;&#20889;&#35789;&#20856;&#12299; \/ &#12298;&#26032;&#33775;&#25340;&#23531;&#35422;&#20856;&#12299;), is the second of Yin Binyong&#8217;s  two books on Pinyin orthography. The first, <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/orthography.html\"><em>Chinese Romanization: Pronunciation and Orthography<\/em><\/a>, is in English and Mandarin; much of it is already available here on Pinyin.Info. <\/p>\n<p>Although <em>Xinhua Pinxie Cidian<\/em> is only in Mandarin, the large number of examples makes it easy to get the point even if you may not read Mandarin in Chinese characters very well. <\/p>\n<p>This week I will begin posting some excerpts from this invaluable work. What&#8217;s more, I have made a version in traditional Chinese characters, which I hope that readers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and elsewhere will take advantage of. So those not used to reading simplified Chinese characters will have <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2011\/simplified-chinese-characters-being-purged-from-taiwan-government-sites\/\">a choice (which is more than the government of Taiwan is providing these days)<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m extremely happy to be able to bring you this information and wish to acknowledge the generosity of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cp.com.cn\/\">Commercial Press<\/a>. Stay tuned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X&#299;nhu&#225; P&#299;nxi&#283; C&#237;di&#462;n (&#12298;&#26032;&#21326;&#25340;&#20889;&#35789;&#20856;&#12299; \/ &#12298;&#26032;&#33775;&#25340;&#23531;&#35422;&#20856;&#12299;), is the second of Yin Binyong&#8217;s two books on Pinyin orthography. The first, Chinese Romanization: Pronunciation and Orthography, is in English and Mandarin; much of it is already available here on Pinyin.Info. Although Xinhua &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2011\/important-book-on-pinyin-to-be-excerpted-on-this-site\/\">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":[104,4,12,15,92,41,28,95,55,32,20,600,19,105,31],"tags":[745],"class_list":["post-4458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet","category-china","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-dictionary","category-english","category-languages","category-linguistics","category-literacy","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-pinyin-rules","category-romanization","category-tone-marks","category-writing-systems","tag-745"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458","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=4458"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7895,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions\/7895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}