The alphabeticpinyinsystem which we are using might be mistaken.
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Pinyinknowledge facilitates letter-sound correspondences in general; this may not affect either body or rime preference.
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Pinyinhas a shallow orthography; letters map directly onto sounds.
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Pinyinis never used in books and newspapers.
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A great number of modern dictionaries published today arrange their entries bypinyinor other methods of romanisation, together with a radicals index.
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Called "tian-tsui" (traditional:, simplified:,pinyin: dincu, dotting with kingfishers), kingfisher feathers are painstakingly cut and glued onto gilt silver.
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Volume 13 has bothpinyinand stroke count indexes, plus appendices.
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Notably, the emperor ordered the suffix (pinyin"si") to be used in the temple's name, as a display of respect.
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Commonpinyinimplementations on the computer today can hold up to a clause inpinyinbefore requiring a conversion.
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The character is made up of the (pinyin: co) radical in its reduced form of and the word which gives the phonetic cue.
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The character (pinyin: "yng") eternity described in more detail below demonstrates one of these compound strokes.
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Usingpinyin, it would be romanized as san guo.
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The character (pinyin: "hu"), which stands for fire, is shown with (pinyin: "li"), which means intense and fierce.
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All schemes exceptpinyinhave a strict form and a broad form, where the broad form is used in general.
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The r final can be analyzed as representing the same phoneme as the initial (which is also written "r" inpinyin).
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