{"id":8381,"date":"2023-04-10T21:17:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T13:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=8381"},"modified":"2023-04-10T21:17:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T13:17:13","slug":"tone-marks-on-taiwan-store-signs-pinyin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2023\/tone-marks-on-taiwan-store-signs-pinyin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tone marks on Taiwan store sign’s Pinyin"},"content":{"rendered":"

An observant reader sent in this relatively rare example in Taiwan of the use of Hanyu Pinyin with tone marks on signage<\/p>\n

\"sign<\/a> <\/p>\n

The Pinyin and especially the tone marks are a little thin, so I’ll give a closeup view:
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The sign, here in aesthetic Banqiao<\/a>, of course, reads: <\/p>\n

Dǐ jiā
\n㭽佳心靈美學館
\nEsthetic Nail Salon<\/p>\n

(Dǐ jiā xīnlíng měixué guǎn)<\/p>\n

The Pinyin is not just “esthetic,” because most people probably don’t know the character ‘㭽’. Although they could probably take an educated guess that 㭽 is pronounced dǐ because of the 氐, that’s not the same thing as knowing for sure. So the Pinyin comes in handy even for most literate Taiwanese — if they can see it. <\/p>\n

What’s especially surprising is that the people at the store went with Pinyin instead of zhuyin fuhao: ㄉㄧ ㄐㄧㄚ. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An observant reader sent in this relatively rare example in Taiwan of the use of Hanyu Pinyin with tone marks on signage The Pinyin and especially the tone marks are a little thin, so I’ll give a closeup view: The … Continue reading →<\/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":[110,78,12,32,20,48,3,105,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banqiao","category-bopomofo","category-chinese","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-signage","category-taiwan","category-tone-marks","category-zhuyin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381","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=8381"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8389,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions\/8389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}