{"id":603,"date":"2006-12-29T16:01:55","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T08:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/hanyu-pinyin-crossword-puzzle\/"},"modified":"2008-10-02T10:55:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T02:55:25","slug":"hanyu-pinyin-crossword-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/hanyu-pinyin-crossword-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanyu Pinyin crossword puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of this puzzle is fairly specialized: Taiwan politics. So those not familiar with Taiwan are probably going to find much of this one difficult. But if enough people are interested in other such puzzles on more general themes, please let me know and I&#8217;ll create some additional crosswords. Also, please let me know what you think of this one. (Too hard? Too easy? Some questions are too obscure? Interesting? Boring?)<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few guidelines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>tones are ignored<\/li>\n<li>u is used for both u and &uuml;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/romanization\/hanyu\/apostrophes.html\">apostrophes<\/a> are omitted<\/li>\n<li>words can be run together, just as in other crossword puzzles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have fun! <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2006\/12\/pinyin_crossword.gif\" alt=\"crossword puzzle in Hanyu Pinyin\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Across<\/strong><br \/>\n4. fight club?<br \/>\n5. one aspect of 12 across<br \/>\n7. KMT<br \/>\n11. min_______, one of the Sanminzhuyi<br \/>\n12. dirty-money politics<br \/>\n13. min _______, one of the Sanminzhuyi<br \/>\n16. Taiwan&#8217;s capital prior to Taipei<br \/>\n18. Isla Formosa<br \/>\n19. 1st pers. sing., to Chen Shui-bian<br \/>\n20. pan-green<\/p>\n<p><strong>Down<\/strong><br \/>\n1. one of 20 across, Minzhu _______<br \/>\n2. start of the <em>guoge<\/em><br \/>\n3. Annette _______<br \/>\n6. min_______, one of the Sanminzhuyi<br \/>\n8. &#8220;the mainland&#8221;<br \/>\n9. _______ Guomindang<br \/>\n10. PFP<br \/>\n14. former ruling nation of Taiwan<br \/>\n15. pan-blue<br \/>\n17. month no. for Taipei mayoral election<\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forumosa.com\/\">Gus<\/a>, who got me started thinking of this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of this puzzle is fairly specialized: Taiwan politics. So those not familiar with Taiwan are probably going to find much of this one difficult. But if enough people are interested in other such puzzles on more general themes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/hanyu-pinyin-crossword-puzzle\/\">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":[12,32,20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}