Father of hanyu pinyin just turned 109, 5 things about the system he invented #C...

Father of hanyu pinyin just turned 109, 5 things about the system he invented #China #Mandarin


Father of hanyu pinyin just turned 109, 5 things about the system he invented
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The father of hanyu pinyin, Zhou Youguang, turned 109 on Tuesday. The linguist and dissident came up with the system of transliterating Chinese characters into Roman letters in the 1950s.