Saturday, January 14, 2017

Zhou Youguang (周有光), Co-creator of the Chinese Characters known as the Pinyin (拼音) system dies at 111



If not for the pinyin system, I would not have been able to learn the Mandarin language to the extent I have. So it is only fitting to pay respects to one of the creator of the system which allowed so many hundreds of million to step into this at times baffling language.

因为是为了拼音我就学了汉语 -今天要请拼音系统之父告别




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