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Questions about the official transcription writing system that is used to write the reading of chinese characters using the roman alphabet.
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Why is it written LIU in Pinyin, when there's clearly an O sound?
This doesn't happen symmetrically to all syllables, but considering Pinyin is an "artificial" system for romanizations, many choices could be just arbitrary. …
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Why were some letters like Q, X, C, chosen for Pinyin which confuse non-Chinese speakers?
Pinyin, like other written systems, is an arbitrary system, and the corresponding sounds were expressly decided. … So why pinyin with Chinese should be different? …
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Are there rules about the differences between pinyin spelling and pronunciation?
I think one of the reasons is the loss of tone and/or stress in the syllable. But see this table, "Chinese (Mandarin)/Pronunciation of Finals", it provides a good summary of the changes.
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How to convert from hanyu pinyin to IPA?
Personally I think the IPA given in the Wikipedia page for Pinyin is organized well and the symbols don't change like other pages I've seen, i.e. …
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Looking for Pinyin standards
Note that sometimes the transcription reflects the actual reading rather than the "single-character-pinyin". …
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Chinese input on Windows based on pinyin and tones
See also this question on Superuser SE, "How to type pinyin text with tone marks in Windows?", there are various resources in the answers, especially the main one. …
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