#pinyin — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pinyin, aggregated by home.social.
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Longtian railway station (#Chinese: 隆田車站; #pinyin: Lóngtián Chēzhàn) is a railway station located in #GuantianDistrict, #Tainan, Taiwan. It is located on the #WestCoastLine and is operated by the #TaiwanRailwaysAdministration.
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What’s in a Chinese name: scientists fight for identity when forced to use Latin alphabet https://www.byteseu.com/876739/ #BeihangUniversity #ChengGong #ChineseAuthors #ChineseLanguage #ChineseLanguageInScience #ChineseNames #ChineseNamesInScience #ChineseResearchers #GenderEquality #JiangsuNormalUniversity #nature #PetroChinaResearchInstitute #pinyin #PinyinNamesInScience #Science #ScienceNet #UniversityOfScienceAndTechnologyBeijing #Wuhan #YuanBo #ZhangQifa
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what on earth is going on in this sentence? i might try to work this out for myself later, just thinking aloud for now…
"Hong Wei Xian, a/k/a "Harry Zan," 32, and Li Li, a/k/a "Lea Li," 33, both from the People's Republic of China (PRC)" from https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/2-chinese-nationals-charged-illegally-attempting-export-military-satellite-components
"a/k/a" is bizarre, but not very interesting, the names are more interesting.
I would guess that the first names listed are the standard transcriptions of their names in #Pinyin from Simplified Chinese?
But why is it different in their English names?
Harry and Lea make sense, the closest common English name … but Zan is weird?
#Taiwan uses a different system to Pinyin … but would the USA refer to them as being from the PRC? and if they were a Taiwanese spy working for the PRC to steel microchip making secrets, they'd be in Taiwan?
Maybe Hong Kong or Macau ?
Maybe judder easier to spell for Americans? but then a Pinyin X would be an S or Sh if you wrote it more phonetically?
Maybe a spy alias that's not even supposed to be the same name?
cc other mes @[email protected] @[email protected]
#USA #PRC #HongKong #Macau #ChineseLanguages #ChineseNames #SimplifiedChinese #TraditionalChinese #Mandarin #Cantonese #HongWeiXian #XianHongWei #HarryZan #LiLi #LeaLi
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what on earth is going on in this sentence? i might try to work this out for myself later, just thinking aloud for now…
"Hong Wei Xian, a/k/a "Harry Zan," 32, and Li Li, a/k/a "Lea Li," 33, both from the People's Republic of China (PRC)" from https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/2-chinese-nationals-charged-illegally-attempting-export-military-satellite-components
"a/k/a" is bizarre, but not very interesting, the names are more interesting.
I would guess that the first names listed are the standard transcriptions of their names in #Pinyin from Simplified Chinese?
But why is it different in their English names?
Harry and Lea make sense, the closest common English name … but Zan is weird?
#Taiwan uses a different system to Pinyin … but would the USA refer to them as being from the PRC? and if they were a Taiwanese spy working for the PRC to steel microchip making secrets, they'd be in Taiwan?
Maybe Hong Kong or Macau ?
Maybe judder easier to spell for Americans? but then a Pinyin X would be an S or Sh if you wrote it more phonetically?
Maybe a spy alias that's not even supposed to be the same name?
cc other mes @[email protected] @[email protected]
#USA #PRC #HongKong #Macau #ChineseLanguages #ChineseNames #SimplifiedChinese #TraditionalChinese #Mandarin #Cantonese #HongWeiXian #XianHongWei #HarryZan #LiLi #LeaLi
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Is anyone working on a Chinese/Mandarin/Pinyin keyboard for #grapheneos ?
#opensource #keyboard #mobile #chinese #Hanyu #hanyupinyin #pinyin #mandarin #simplifiedchinese #android
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Earlier today I finished the main logic for code to convert Pinyin with tone numbers to Pinyin with tone marks. For example converting wo3 to wǒ. Soon I'll put a tool on the website for all to use. #Mandarin #Mandarinportal #Pinyin #HanyuPinyin #Chinese #WebDev #Coding